{"id":31,"date":"2008-01-01T15:12:20","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T20:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/ulysses%e2%80%99-measurement-of-the-solar-wind\/"},"modified":"2009-11-02T21:05:02","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T02:05:02","slug":"ulysses%e2%80%99-measurement-of-the-solar-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/01\/ulysses%e2%80%99-measurement-of-the-solar-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulysses\u2019 Measurement of the Solar Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Wikipedia article on Comet McNaught, NASA and ESA\u2019s Ulysses spacecraft \u201cmade an unexpected pass through the tail of the comet\u201d, where its Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) \u201c<span lang=\"EN\">measured the composition speed of the comet tail and solar wind\u201d.<\/span><br \/>\nThe article explains that\u00a0sensor data showed that oxygen ions in the solar wind had picked up electrons to replace some of their missing electrons as the ions passed through the tail of the comet.\u00a0 It goes on to say that \u201c<span lang=\"EN\">the tail had slowed the solar wind to half its normal speed.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">Space science professor Michael Combi is quoted as saying:\u00a0 &#8220;This was very surprising to me. Way past the orbit of Mars, the solar wind felt the disturbance of this little comet. It will be a serious challenge for us theoreticians and computer modellers to figure out the physics,&#8221; *<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"EN\">Here we learn that as atomic ions traveling radially outward from the sun in the solar wind pick up electrons and incorporate them into atomic orbitals, the ions slow down.\u00a0 For anyone\u00a0willing to learn some physics,\u00a0this is because after the ions pick up electrons, they collect more gravitions.\u00a0 The ions will slow down due to\u00a0increased gravitational acceleration back toward the sun.<br \/>\n<\/span><span \/>* <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comet_McNaught\"><font color=\"#800080\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comet_McNaught<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Wikipedia article on Comet McNaught, NASA and ESA\u2019s Ulysses spacecraft \u201cmade an unexpected pass through the tail of the comet\u201d, where its Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer (SWICS) \u201cmeasured the composition speed of the comet tail and solar wind\u201d. The article explains that\u00a0sensor data showed that oxygen ions in the solar wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophysics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fruechtetheory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}