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Author Odenwald, Sten F.

Title The 23rd cycle : learning to live with a stormy star / Sten F. Odenwald.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 207 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.
Contents A conflagration of storms -- Dancing in the light -- "Hello? Is anyone there?" -- Between a rock and a hard place -- "We're not in Kansas anymore! -- They call them "satellite anomalies" -- Business as usual -- Human factors -- Cycle -- Through a crystal ball.
Summary On March 13, 1989, the entire Quebec power grid collapsed, automatic garage doors in California suburbs began to open and close without apparent reason, and microchip production came to a halt in the Northeast; in space, communications satellites had to be manually repointed after flipping upside down, and pressure readings on hydrogen tank supplies on board the Space Shuttle Discovery peaked, causing NASA to consider aborting the mission. What was the cause of all these seemingly disparate events? Sten Odenwald gives convincing evidence of the mischievous?and potentially catastrophic?pow.
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Subject Solar activity -- Environmental aspects.
Solar activity -- Environmental aspects.
Solar activity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Title Twenty-third cycle
Other Form: Print version: Odenwald, Sten F. 23rd cycle. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001 0231120788 (DLC) 00059647 (OCoLC)44633040
ISBN 0231505930 (electronic book)
9780231505932 (electronic book)
Music No. EB00639282 Recorded Books