I recently across this news item based on a scientific paper which was released in May of 2019. Despite the huge differences in size, the study suggests that the planetary alignment of the planets Venus, Earth and Jupiter is large enough to effect the sun and its sunspot cycle.
"As with the gravitational pull of the Moon causing tides on Earth, planets are able to displace the hot plasma on the sun’s surface. Tidal forces are strongest when there is maximum Venus-Earth-Jupiter alignment; a constellation that occurs every 11.07 years."
The lead author of the study, Frank Stefani is quoted as saying...“There is an astonishingly high level of concordance: what we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles.”
If it is true then perhaps it might allow for better computer models to be built to predict future sunspot cycles?
Not only is the solar cycle of interest for radio propagation but it is hugely relevant to the large number of satellites in orbit in terms of drag and radiation.
More info on the study in the links below...
1) Scientific Paper... A Model of a Tidally Synchronized Solar Dynamo
2) Daily Galaxy... Sun’s 11-Year Cycle –“Powered By Tidal Forces of Venus, Earth, Jupiter”
3) Newsweek... SUN'S SOLAR CYCLE IS GOVERNED BY THE ALIGNMENT OF THE PLANETS, SCIENTISTS DISCOVER
2 comments:
Cue: astrologers claim to have been righ all along!
Well, without being able to read the paper text unless I pay £35, it's difficult to say what is actually being claimed.
It's quite an ask to show 0.2% of the Solar System's mass (all the planets together) incluence the remaining 99.8% to such a degree. But it's possible, I suppose.
I think I would be more likely to win money on Zharkova's twin dynamo model, though:
https://www.nam2015.org/press-releases/64-irregular-heartbeat-of-the-sun-driven-by-double-dynamo
An interesting topic and theory. So much so that I downloaded a couple of programs that allow one to see planetary alignment on any given date, hoping to see the correlation mentioned in the article.
I dialed in the dates of peak solar activity and saw no consistent correlation at all between Earth, Venus and Jupiter during cycle peaks. What I did see was that planetary alignment varies greatly, even in the short span of the peak months of a cycle.
Feel free to check for yourself - it's very likely I'm missing a variable somewhere:
https://www.solarsystemscope.com/
https://in-the-sky.org/solarsystem.php
73 - John AE5X
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