Good morning, Its Friday Eve. Bens video
Very quiet today. the Angry Cyclops is fully gone. Sun is almost totally blank.
No CMEs nor even a "Puff" of material.
Quakes are
M 5.3 - 191 km SE of Mata-Utu, Wallis and Futuna. 3.1 in Puerto Rico and a pair of 2.3 in New Mexico and Kansas.
Yes, fuel prices are expeected to rise. Two fuel production CEOs said as much. China has started buying more crude
Big news is
UNEXPECTED SATELLITE EXPLOSION: A Cold War spy satellite just broke apart in Earth orbit, and no one knows why.
The US Space Force detected the breakup on Sept. 13th when USA 32 unexpectedly shed a cloud of debris 775 km above Earth. The number of fragments is still unknown; Space-Track, the Space Force's public catalog, has not yet released a count.
USA 32 was launched in 1988 on a top-secret mission to monitor Soviet radars from orbit. It was part of a series of satellites named after the actress
Farrah Fawcett. This one was Farrah III, shaped, ironically, like
a squat cylinder. The "tuna can" form allowed it to rapidly spin and sweep its antennas across the ground below. The NRO declassified the program only this year.
(Sorry, no photo - spy satellite)
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