Asteroid 2006 ON1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU) is noted on JPL's Space Calendar, and in following that up a link to SpaceWeather showed up.

It seems that some of you should have had a good light show last night from spectacular auroras caused by a geomagnetic storm.

See an image taken in Sweden on August 19th. - LRK -

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http://www.spaceweather.com/
What's Up in Space -- 20 Aug 2006
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Asteroid 2006 ON1 went by at 16.6 times the distance to the Moon, so no light show from an asteroid this time. Hmmm - not at this time. Just keep repeating, not at this time.
- LRK -

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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
# Aug 20 - Mercury Passes 0.5 Degrees From Saturn # Aug 20 - Asteroid 2429 Schurer Occults HIP 13702 (5.6 Magnitude Star) # Aug 20 - Asteroid 1185 Nikko Occults HIP 72622 (2.8 Magnitude Star) # Aug 20 - Asteroid 2006 ON1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?des=2006+ON1
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Unusual/K06O01N.html
# Aug 20 - Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.860 AU)
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At SpaceWeather you will also note a number of other interesting web links.
- LRK -

Will there be more solar storms in the future? Could well be as we had a
sunspot on July 31 that was backward. This may signal the starting of Solar
Cycle 24 which is expected to be exceptionally stormy.
- LRK -

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15aug_backwards.htm


Thanks for looking up with me.


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http://spaceweather.com/
What's Up in Space -- 20 Aug 2006

MORNING PLANETS: If you're up at dawn tomorrow, dash outside and look east.
Three planets and the crescent Moon are gathering together just ahead of the
rising sun. Look, it's a nice way to begin the day. [sky map]

MAGNETIC STORM: Last night, a geomagnetic storm sent spectacular auroras
rippling across Scandinavia: "It was almost scary to see the 'flames' in the
sky," says Chris Folde of Selbu, Norway. "I've never experienced anything
like it."

Across the border in Sweden, the auroras had competition from the midnight
sun. No problem. "The display was so strong, I was able to take many
pictures," says Patricia Cowern of Porjus, Sweden:

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August 2006 Earth-asteroid encounters
ASTEROID DATE (UT) MISS DISTANCE MAG. SIZE
2006 ON1 Aug 20 16.6 LD 18 230 m

Notes: LD is a "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between
Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude
of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.

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Here is a link to some SOHO images:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/

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[Many more links like the above at the SpaceWeather link. - LRK -]
http://spaceweather.com/
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/15aug_backwards.htm
Backward Sunspot
08.15.2006

August 15, 2006: On July 31st, a tiny sunspot was born. It popped up from
the sun's interior, floated around a bit, and vanished again in a few hours.
On the sun this sort of thing happens all the time and, ordinarily, it
wouldn't be worth mentioning. But this sunspot was special: It was backward.

"We've been waiting for this," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the
Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Alabama. "A backward sunspot is a sign
that the next solar cycle is beginning."

"Backward" means magnetically backward. Hathaway explains:

Sunspots are planet-sized magnets created by the sun's inner magnetic
dynamo. Like all magnets in the Universe, sunspots have north (N) and south
(S) magnetic poles. The sunspot of July 31st popped up at solar longitude
65o W, latitude 13o S. Sunspots in that area are normally oriented N-S. The
newcomer, however, was S-N, opposite the norm.

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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