Glad you enjoyed it, Julie. It looks like the experts - an official NOAA-NASA consensus panel that predicts these things - failed to reach a consensus after surveying 46 prediction studies! http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SolarCycle/SC24/index.html Minimum is predicted for March 2008 plus or minus six months - meaning it could be as early as this September. But the 11 member panel split 6-5 (sounds like the Supreme Court) on whether the maximum sunspot number for the next cycle will be: 1) a high 140 sunspot number, peaking in Oct. 2001, or, 2) "average" and will peak a year later at 90 ssn in August 2012. But it looks like the panel has been continually setting the date back for solar minimum based on continuing observations. See - "Previous target dates and counter re-sets: January 1, 2007 set on June 1, 2006 June 1 ,2007 set on January 1, 2007 March 1, 2008 set on June 1, 2007" http://www.solarstorms.org/SNextCycle.html - Kurt _______________________________________________ Sent via CSolutions - http://www.csolutions.net