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Re: The Sun has no South Pole


Per a NASA web site I referenced,  
Ulysses passed by the Sun's South Pole again in 2000, thense to the
North Pole in 2001.  Please note that the findings SUPPORT THE ZETA
STATEMENTS 100%!!!!  (God, I love being right!)  Woooeeeee!

JPL  September 6, 2000 
    The Ulysses spacecraft, on a mission to explore 
    the Sun at extreme latitudes, today begins its 
    investigation of the Sun's south polar region. 
    This will be the second time Ulysses has passed 
    under the Sun, but this time the glowing orb will 
    look and act very differently because the Sun has 
    reached solar maximum, a time of heightened 
    activity. ... Ulysses was able to assess the Sun 
    during the relatively quiet solar minimum between
    1994 and 1996. Now it will fill in the gaps with 
    observations during the solar maximum, thus 
    completing observations during a full sunspot 
    cycle of 11 years.  ... Ulysses has found that 
    although the Sun's magnetic field is strongest 
    near the poles, as the solar wind pushes it 
    outward, the magnetic field eventually has the 
    same strength over the equator as over the poles. 
    The spacecraft will measure the magnetic field 
    around the Sun and the ions emanating from it. 
    ... During the previous solar polar passes, 
    scientists had expected to find that the cosmic 
    rays would be funneled toward the poles by the 
    Sun's magnetic field. But this wasn't what they 
    found, at least not during solar minimum. Will 
    this be the case during solar maximum? The 
    Ulysses team hopes to find out. 

JPL September 9, 2001
    Space physicists predict gusty winds for the next
    few months at the Sun's north pole, an area that
    will be observed when the Ulysses spacecraft 
    passes over it starting on Aug. 31 [2001]. This 
    pass over the pole occurs at a time of solar 
    maximum ... This will be Ulysses' second pass 
    over the Sun's north pole. It completed a circuit 
    of the Sun in 1996  ... In 1995, Ulysses saw 
    strong and simple magnetic fields at both poles 
    of the Sun.  ... 
    =====> AS ULYSSES PASSED BY THE SOUTH POLE 
    OF THE SUN A FEW MONTHS AGO, SCIENTISTS EXPECTED 
    TO FIND THAT MAGNETIC LINES WERE POINTING 
    OUTWARD, BECAUSE OBSERVATIONS FROM EARTH 
    SHOW THAT THE MAGNETIC FIELD HAS ALREADY 
    REVERSED AT THE SUN'S SURFACE.  INSTEAD, THEY FOUND
    THAT THE MAGNETIC LINES WERE STILL POINTING INWARD, 
    JUST AS THEY HAD BEEN THROUGHOUT SOLAR MINIMUM. <========
    They theorize that this could be caused by 
    [new theory to replace debunked theory, again]