Is there a 13 month cycle of Earth being bombarded by cosmic rays from Jupiter?

Yes. Evidently every 13 months, Earth and Jupiter are connected to the same solar wind magnetic field lines, and they serve as a pipeline to let electrons accelerated from Jupiter's magnetosphere travel to Earth and be picked up as cosmic ray enhancements with this period. See the article on Jupiter by John Wolfe in Scientific American September 1995, page 126.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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