July 27, 2011 – UFO Disguised As Blimp Above Hollywood Hills?
Email to Earthfiles, July 27, 2011: “We live in the Hollywood Hills (top red circle).
(Today) my wife started taping what I thought was a blimp in the sky.
She said it suddenly just appeared. She started recording it, but it zipped away
seconds later and scared the crap out of us. We looked around for
another 2 minutes but it never came back.”
check out the video: http://www.youtube.com/user/rgrvr05
Last update: July 28, 2011 at 2:48 pm by By Tom Pering
Recently El Hierro volcano of the Canary Islands has been experiencing a seismic swarm beneath it, which as of yesterday reached to over 700 events.
Most of these events have been at Magnitudes of around 2 (+/-0.5) and are clustered beneath El Hierro whilst the depths of these earthquakes have been roughly between 9 and 16 km for the most part, with the exception of a few shallower and deeper quakes, the shallowest of which has been around 4 km (as of 27/04/11 8am GMT for the plotted data below) but as shallow as 1 km following this.
If we look at these earthquakes in two plots here http://www.volcano-blog.com/hierro.html we can see the clustering of these earthquakes is mainly confined to an oval area at 10 km depth.
to read more, go to:: http://earthquake-report.com/2011/07/28/earquake-activity-below-el-hierro-volcano-canary-islands-spain/
Vandenberg Minuteman III Missile destroyed after launch
| Published on July 27, 2011 10:55 am PT – By Dave Tole – Writer – Article Editor and Approved – Ron Jackson |
(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A missile was test launched at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Wednesday morning, resulting in the destruction of the missile.
Air force officials detected an anomaly during the flight and destroyed the missile for safety reasons. TWS Senior Meteorologist Kevin Martin saw an irregular flight path.
“I was with three people and told them it looks a bit odd because the path was not correct, it was lower than usual,” said Martin. “Was sparkling a lot more than just stages so that could be a clue to what caused the problem.”
to read more, go to: http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-07_27_2011_failedmissile.html
(reference this to the purported missile mis-fire of a few months ago. se the following for one report: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mystery-missile-launched-missile-off-california-coast/story?id=12097155 )
Pretty Cool:
In the journal’s 18 February 2011 issue, Science, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, presents the winners and honorable mentions in the eighth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge.
The articles linked on this page describe the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together, and an online slide presentation showcases the competition’s winners and honorable mentions.
In addition, a segment of the Science Podcast includes interviews with one of the competition’s judges and the creator of the winning entry in the informational graphics category. You can also hear the winners explain the processes, techniques, and thoughts behind their entries in a video courtesy of the National Science Foundation.
to see the images, go to: http://www.sciencemag.org/site/special/vis2010/show/index.xhtml
The tropical disturbance we’ve been tracking continues to develop, and likely will become Tropical Storm Don. The National Hurricane Center gives the tropical wave an 80 percent chance of blossoming into a tropical depression or storm during the next two days.
Look for it to be upgraded this afternoon when an aircraft reconnaissance plane investigates the disturbance.
In the large satellite image below the disturbance can be seen moving between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba this morning.
Satellite image as of 3:30 a.m. (NexSat, NRL/JPSS)
This is significant because it will no longer interact so much with the Yucatan Peninsula and accordingly will have more of an opportunity to strengthen over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters.
Perhaps the biggest news is that the models have shifted significantly northward, now bringing the system toward Texas. Here’s a look at the models from this morning.
to read more, go to: http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/07/caribbean-system-nears-tropical-storm-strength-now-aimed-toward-texas-coast/
And now, for a few moments of beauty, check out some of JW Waterhouse’s paintings:
to see more, go to: http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/paintings/
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BIG SUNSPOTS: After more than a week of quiet, solar activity is picking up. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring two big sunspot groups now emerging over the sun’s eastern limb. Click on the image to view a 40-hour movie:
The leading sunspot group, AR1260, is crackling with C-class solar flares among a quartet of Earth-sized cores. Not far behind, sunspot AR1261 is larger and may harbor energy for flares of its own. At the moment, these two sunspot groups are too far off disk-center to affect Earth, but this will change in the days ahead. Readers with solar telescopes are encouraged to monitor developments.
Astronomer discovers odd shaped nebula, gets it named after him
| Published on July 26, 2011 6:25 pm PT – By Dave Tole – Writer – Article Editor and Approved – Ron Jackson |
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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A planetary nebula has been discovered by Austrian Amateur Astronomer Matthias Kronberger.
The blue-raspberry shaped nebula was discovered using other means NASA uses several amateur astronomy groups to examine findings from the Kepler Space Observatory.
This nebula is called Kronberger 61.
What is funny is that the amateurs do the dirty work and the “professionals” are doing the paperwork. It is the amateurs that are discovering things in and out of our world today, not professionals.
http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-07_26_2011_kronberger.html
“Very strong coastal earthquake in Luzon, Philippines Last update: July 25, 2011 at 11:01 pm by By Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell ”
“Earthquake overview : Very strong but deep earthquake in Luzon Philippines. Soon after the first data was published in Europe the depth of the hypocenter was +60km (very safe). After 2 hours Phivolcs published however a shallow depth of 30 km, which concerned us a lot. Landscape near San Marcellino (epicenter area) – Panoramio picture courtesy www.travel-guide.ph – http://www.panoramio.com/photo/41161986 21:36 UTC : USGS has recalculated and updated his earthquake data and reports now almost the same parameters than Phivolcs. Magnitude 5.9 at a depth of 35 km. 20:56 UTC : So far 3 aftershocks are recorded : M 3.9 @ 02:12 AM, M 4.0 @ 03:10 AM and M 2.8 @ 03:43 AM (all local times)”
Read more about Very strong coastal earthquake in Luzon, Philippines on:
Severe Weather Outbreak for the Dakotas to part of the Midwest on Tuesday
| Published on July 25, 2011 11:15 pm PT – By Kevin Martin – Senior Meteorologist – Article Editor and Approved – Ron Jackson |
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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A storm system ejecting out of the Northern Rockies will bring a round of severe weather on Tuesday across parts of the Dakotas and into the Midwest.
The system will drag two frontal zones into the area, one being the warm front the other the cold front. The warm front activity is what many other forecasters are aiming at to be the most tornadic.
While this is true, initiation is the key here and whether or not supercells can initiate on the warm front will depend on the magnitude of tornado probabilities.
to read more, go to: http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-07_25_2011_sdsevere.html
