Star's huge radiation burst shut down 2 satellites
By PAUL BECER
The Associated Press

The immense wave of energy, the most powerful ever recorded from beyond the sun, caused at least two satellites to shut down briefly, but it reached the Earth's surface at a strength equal only to a typical, single dental X-ray.

"We've been monitoring things like this for 30 years and we've never seen anything like this before," Kevin Hurley, a research physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, said yesterday at a NASA news conference.

The burst of gamma and X-ray radiation struck the Earth over the Pacific Ocean at night on August 27 and was so powerful that it temporarily ionized the upper atmosphere just as the sun does in the daytime, said Hurley.

Seven scientific satellites, five in orbit of the Earth, one approaching an asteroid far beyond and one near the orbit of Jupiter, detected the massive eruption. Hurley said the burst was so intense that two of the satellites were forced to shut down to protect their electronics.

However, the energy was largely absorbed by the upper atmosphere and only a minuscule amount of radiation reached the Earth's surface. It posed no hazard to life, Hurley said.

The eruption came from a neutron star, called SGR1900+14 in the constellation Aquila some 20,000 light years away. A neutron star is the collapse core left after a massive star explodes. A light year is about 6 trillion miles.

Astronomers said it is extremely rare for such a distant stellar explosion to have any effect on Earth, attesting to the immensity of the energy release. They estimated that the energy, if captured and put to use, could power all of the Earth's energy needs for a billion billion years -- that is one billion periods of one billion years.

The source star is one of four known members of a class of stellar objects, neutron stars, that put out steady flashes of gamma rays. But the extreme energy burst last month also suggests the object is a magnetar, a weird type of star first suggested by astrophysicists Robert Duncan of the University of Texas, Austin, and Christopher Thompson of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The dramatic proof of the star's existence, said Cornell University astronomer Jim Cordes, "is a triumph for theoretical astrophysics. This is the Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire of astrophysics," Cordes added. "It is that bit a deal."

Duncan said the energy burst probably occurred when the magnetic field ripped apart the one-mile thick metal crust of the star, releasing an immense eruption of X-rays and gamma rays. This radiation is not optically visible, but it can be detected by instruments on satellites.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

It happened despite the embarrassing fact that scientists weren't expecting it. The Mayan name for it, the Sixth World of Consciousness, has no equivalent in modern meaning. The first subtle traces of a dimensional shift enveloped the planet while the aurora borealis was visible in daylight as far south as Colorado after record-setting solar flares early in the summer. Ida Kannenberg, author of Project Earth and UFOs And The Psychic Factor, was awakened in the night by a visitor who said that the planet had shifted to a new frequency August 27.

"We have discussed the subtle change that you will notice in just about everything around you. If you look carefully. I mentioned particularly sunshine. It will take on a sparkle rather than a glow. Shadows will have a sheen. Now, we will go more deeply into this.

"You ask the reason? Changes in the vibratory frequency of your solar system. It was slated to happen sometime. The particular time has been strengthened (not hastened) by comets and action of other so called "heavenly" bodies veering into the sun.

"These are the most exciting times in the history of the planet and the history of humankind. The effect of this vibratory increase means going into a higher consciousness for those who are ready for it, and possible headaches and other mental ailments for those who are not. The frequencies raise for all, but some cannot adjust their mental capacities quickly enough to avoid complications. They receive but cannot absorb the new frequencies."

Ida Kannenberg, Author

Long-prophesied in the traditions of the pyramid builders who universally placed premier importance on solar activity, this change will gain momentum over the next decade while the planet transforms with new densities of light. It will profoundly touch the lives of every person on Earth as the prophecies are fulfilled while the planetary and galactic hierarchies serve as midwife assistants, as they have since the pre-dawn of our history.

In modern terms, we know that solar eruptions affect the magnetic fields of Earth awhich, in turn, impact every form of life, not to mention computers, communications systems, satellites etc. The TimeStar has successfuly predicted dates when displays of the aurora borealis -- in the visible light band of the electromagnetic spectrum -- would follow solar flares. A complete change in the solar cycle is capable of changing the electromagnetic frequency of the planet.

AUGUST 20 - SEPTEMBER 1

PREDICTION: Large quakes in the Mediterranean, Italy and Turkey as well as renewed interest around the Great Pyramid are likely during these 13 days. This window aligns with a period when ancient ritual associated with the Great Pyramid would be performed in TimeStar reckoning. The TimeStar window coincides with the astrological cusp embodied in the Sphinx, the lion and the virgin. Earthquakes at the Antarctic accompanied with cracking of the Larsen B Ice Shelf continue to be highlighted.

Heightened perception and telepathy will reveal new colors and unexplained hums, cracks, and buzzes. The dimensional veils will be more apparently illusory and interdimensional creatures... will begin to appear more frequently. Temporary losses of memory will be more marked, but KNOW that you always know what is necessary in the moment. Time is literally shifting and with it memory of the past as one moves out of it. (13TH DAY OF AUGUST 7 ECLIPSE)

RESULTS: The war dance started with missiles targeted within degrees of the Great Pyramid's longitude into the Sudan south of Egypt. Tomahawk missles launched from a U.S. Navy carrier in the Red Sea on August 20, the 13th day after terrorists bombed U.S. Embassies coinciding with the August 7 lunar eclipse. (I wonder if Clinton's decision to bomb on the 13th day after the lunar eclipse date when U.S. embassies were bombed carried a hidden religious message?) Fires of war flared as terrorist Osama bin Laden vowed revenge against America for the missile attacks. Sudan asked the United Nations to hear its complaints against the U.S. for the attack, claiming the targeted factory produced nothing but pharmaceutical products. The U.S. responded with data linking the pharmaceutical factory in the Sudan with Iraq's chemical weapons program.

Small earthquakes were registered throughout the Mediterranean area: Italy, Greece, France, and Albania.

Brilliant displays of the aurora borealis appeared in the U.S. as far south as Colorado August 26 through September 2. Although extensive displays of the aurora borealis are common in the far-northern latitudes of Alaska, they rare for Montana and even rarer for Colorado. In the course of a week, the lights over Montana became less energetic as the colors changed into a constant pale glow visible during the day. After remaining greenish for a few days the lights took on a silverish hue.

AUGUST 7 - AUGUST 19
1ST DAY OF ECLIPSE

PREDICTION: This lunar eclipse at the Antarctic on the same longitude with the Great Pyramid in Egypt will "sprocket" a shift of planetary energy towards the Pacific Coast of North and South America. The effects of this eclipse will be similar to the September 26, 1996 lunar eclipse on the same longitude. A review of the 1996 eclipse shows the energy pattern set in motion from the Great Pyramid's longitude.

During the 260 days of the September, 1996 eclipse several appearances of lights accompanied with sounds of thunder or sonic booms occurred. Officially explained as "meteorites", residues common to meteorites were never found in several cases. It is interesting that chunks of ice that inexplicably fell from the sky -- far more delicate than stone -- were recovered in at least two instances.

RESULTS: Terrorist bombing of U.S. embassies in the African nations of Kenya and Tanzania within hours of the eclipse were covered in the August newsletter. A 2.5 mile-long crack opened up in the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia. The 16 foot wide and 40 feet deep crack, resulting from a receding earth, has been gradually growing southward in the direction of two lakes. Officials fear that that the crack could widen and join the lakes. A 7.1 earthquake shook the Pacific Coast of Ecuador in South America.

Geologist Joseph Gill reported more rapid and extensive deterioration of the Antarctic ice cap than expected or reported in the media. "The apron around this continent is melting as the result of numerous underwater volcanoes now going off and they are the result of the sun's recent upsurge of energy levels also causing magnetic anomalies." The apron will not hold the ice cap in place much longer. Gill reported that the melting apron is a more urgent problem than Y2K.

A meteor briefly lit the nighttime sky across parts of Australia that was believed to have been part of the Perseid meteor shower. The flash was seen from Alice Sprints to Mornington Island, 620 miles to the northeast. "Sgt. Bob Jeffries, of the Avon Downs police station, said the flash of light lit up his back yard like daylight. 'That's not bad, considering my back yard out there is about a million acres.'" (Earthweek for August 14, 1998.)

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