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Cycles of solar activity and the configurations of planets

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In this paper, using the parameter—the average difference between the heliocentric longitudes of the planets Venus, Earth and Jupiter—the strong link found 22-year and 11-year cycles of solar activity with the lowest values of the parameter. The envelope curve of the minimum values of this parameter is well described as the conjunctions of the three planets, when they are almost in a straight line from the sun, which causes the maximum of solar activity, and the conjunctions in the larger longitudinal sector (25–30 degrees), which occur much more frequently and are accompanied by different combinations of planets on the opposite side of the Sun, which also cause the maximum of solar activity. Location of these planets on opposite sides of the Sun in various combinations is very well compatible with the parameter used.

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Okhlopkov, 2012, published in Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Fizika, 2012, No. 4, pp. 59–64.

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Okhlopkov, V.P. Cycles of solar activity and the configurations of planets. Moscow Univ. Phys. 67, 377–383 (2012). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027134912040108

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