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SUMMARY:Where Are All the Sunspots?
DESCRIPTION:
 Professor Horace Smith describes:  Ordinarily, 
 sunspots and solar activity wax and wane in 
 an eleven year cycle.  Recently, we have been 
 in a deep minimum of solar activity, and sunspots 
 have been few and far between.  There are 
 signs, however, that the sun is finally emerging 
 from this spell of inactivity.  To what 
 extent can the long term behavior of solar 
 activity be predicted?  Can we predict the size 
 and timing of the next solar maximum?  And 
 what are the implications of solar activity 
 for life on Earth, and for satellites and astronauts 
 in space?\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Dept. of Physics/Astronomy and Abrams Planetarium\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro\n
 Contact name: Mary Gowans\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-4676\n
 Contact email: gowans@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://www.pa.msu.edu/astro\n
LOCATION:Abrams Planetarium
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