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    The Maunder Minimum, also known as the "prolonged sunspot minimum", was a period around 1645 to 1715 during which sunspots became exceedingly rare. During...
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  • A. Eddy in a landmark 1976 paper published in Science titled "The Maunder Minimum". It occurred before sunspots had been directly observed and was discovered...
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    identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum. Maunder was born in 1851, in London, the youngest child of a minister of...
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  • cycles, possibly analogous to the Maunder minima for the Sun which lasted 70 years, for example some Maunder minimum candidates are 51 Pegasi, HD 4915...
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    with that of the Maunder Minimum but with that of the modern solar cycles. Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the Dalton Minimum coincided with...
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    BC, 7520 BC, 8220 BC, 9170 BC. Active region List of solar cycles Maunder Minimum Solar cycle Solar cycle 24 Solar maximum Moussas, X.; Polygiannakis...
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    numbers were still high before the start of the Maunder Minimum, and persisted until after the Maunder Minimum had ceased. Numerical climate modelling indicates...
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  • maunder in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maunder may refer to: Maunder (lunar crater) Maunder (Martian crater) Maunder (surname) Maunder Minimum,...
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    before the start of the Maunder Minimum but after the start of the Spörer Minimum and persisted until after the Maunder Minimum (and even after the much...
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    Solar cycle (redirect from Wolf minimum)
    Spörer and was later named the Maunder minimum after the wife-and-husband team Annie S. D. Maunder and Edward Walter Maunder who extensively researched this...
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    Zeta Reticuli (category Maunder Minimum)
    of activity with a ~7.9-year cycle, which may indicate it is in a Maunder Minimum state. Although the kinematics of this system suggest that they belong...
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    studied historical sunspot records, and popularised the name Maunder Minimum for the sunspot minimum which occurred in the late 17th century. John Eddy was...
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  • 51 Pegasi (category Maunder Minimum)
    relatively low X-ray emission, suggests that the star may be in a Maunder minimum period during which a star produces a reduced number of star spots...
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    16 Cygni (category Maunder Minimum)
    16 Cygni or 16 Cyg is a triple star system approximately 69 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It consists of two Sun-like yellow...
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  • since 1610 but the cycle numbering is not well defined during the Maunder minimum. It was proposed that one cycle might have been lost in the late 18th...
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    intergroup violence, and high mortality because of the Little Ice Age. The Maunder Minimum involved sunspots being exceedingly rare. Episodes of social instability...
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    several decades; few sunspots were observed during a period known as the Maunder minimum. This coincided in time with the era of the Little Ice Age, when Europe...
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    that the commonly-invoked association of the Little Ice Age with the Maunder minimum is far too simplistic as, although solar variations may have played...
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    Tau Ceti (category Maunder Minimum)
    suggested that the star could be in a low-activity state analogous to a Maunder Minimum—a historical period, associated with the Little Ice Age in Europe,...
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    Alpha Centauri (category Maunder Minimum)
    the activity level has fallen into a deep minimum that might be similar to the Sun's historical Maunder Minimum. Alternatively, it may have a very long...
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    Edward Maunder. Spörer was the first to note a prolonged period of low sunspot activity from 1645 to 1715. This period is known as the Maunder Minimum. Spörer...
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  • politicians opposed to climate-change legislation. Soon co-authored The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun–Earth Connection with Steven H. Yaskell. The book...
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    7310 BC, 7520 BC, 8220 BC, 9170 BC. Solar wind Solar variation Solar minimum List of solar cycles – table of solar cycles NASA C. D. Camp & K. K. Tung...
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    Annie Scott Dill Maunder (née Russell) FRAS (14 April 1868 – 15 September 1947) was an Irish-British astronomer, who recorded the first evidence of the...
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    Maunder is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon, just beyond the western limb. This region is sometimes brought into view...
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    manner and can shut down altogether for periods of time. During the Maunder Minimum, for example, the Sun underwent a 70-year period with almost no sunspot...
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    The period between approximately 1645 and 1715 corresponds to the Maunder minimum in sunspot activity. In Robert W. Service's satirical poem "The Ballad...
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    47 Ursae Majoris (category Maunder Minimum)
    years for the star. The low level of magnetic activity makes it a Maunder Minimum candidate star. 47 Ursae Majoris is the Flamsteed designation. On their...
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    in luminosity that can have a significant impact on the Earth. The Maunder minimum, for example, is believed to have caused the Little Ice Age phenomenon...
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  • of the Sun? What caused the Maunder Minimum and other grand minima, and how does the solar cycle recover from a minimum state? Coronal heating problem:...
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