{"id":1470,"date":"2009-04-07T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/04\/we-are-in-deep-solar-minimum-1.html"},"modified":"2009-04-07T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T18:31:00","slug":"we-are-in-deep-solar-minimum-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/astrologicalmusings\/2009\/04\/we-are-in-deep-solar-minimum-1.html","title":{"rendered":"We are in Deep Solar Minimum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrodynamics.net\">by Lynn Hayes<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrococktail.com\/news.html\">Astrococktail <\/a>for this link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/headlines\/y2009\/01apr_deepsolarminimum.htm?list737744\">NASA article<\/a> on the Solar Minimum, the expected period of low sunspot activity. \u00a0The Solar Minimum came right on schedule back in 2006, as I reported in<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/astrologicalmusings\/2006\/04\/solar-minimum-has-arrived.html\"> this earlier article<\/a>. \u00a0But this Solar Minimum is setting all kinds of records.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In 2008 the Sun was completely blank of sunspots 73% of the time, the lowest activity since 1913. \u00a0As of March 31, according to the NASA article, the Sun has been free of sunspots 87% of the time in 2009. \u00a0This is a particularly deep solar minimum that follows a 50-year period of heightened sunspot activity. \u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Solar Minimum could create cooler than usual weather conditions, just as the Maunder Minimum did between 1645-1715, coinciding what was called the &#8220;Little Ice Age.&#8221; \u00a0There is also a speculated connection between the Solar Minimum periods and increased earthquake activity. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/neic.usgs.gov\/neis\/eqlists\/eqstats.html\">USGS statistics<\/a>\u00a0that indicate that earthquake activity seems to have peaked in 2003-2006, so there appears to be some correlation since the Solar Minimum appears to have begun in 2004.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Spaceweather has a new calculator for the Solar Minimum and reports that while the typical Solar Minimum lasts 485 days, we have had 592 days of a blank Sun with no sunspots.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lynn Hayes Thanks to Astrococktail for this link to a NASA article on the Solar Minimum, the expected period of low sunspot activity. \u00a0The Solar Minimum came right on schedule back in 2006, as I reported in this earlier article. \u00a0But this Solar Minimum is setting all kinds of records. 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