Comet ISON ~ Linda Moulton Howe

Mystery Bursts & Comet ISON


Biography:
Linda Moulton Howe is a graduate of Stanford University with a Masters Degree in Communication. She has devoted her documentary film, television, radio, writing and reporting career to productions concerning science, medicine and the environment. Ms. Howe has received local, national and international awards, including three regional Emmys, a national Emmy nomination and a Station Peabody award for medical programming. Linda's documentaries have included A Strange Harvest and Strange Harvests 1993, which explored the worldwide animal mutilation mystery. Another film, A Prairie Dawn, focused on astronaut training in Denver. She has also produced documentaries in Ethiopia and Mexico for UNICEF about child survival efforts and for Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta about environmental challenges.

In addition to television, Linda produces, reports and edits the award-winning science, environment and earth mysteries news website, Earthfiles.com. In 2003, Earthfiles received an Award for Standard of Excellence presented by the Internet's WebAward Association. Earthfiles also received the 2001 Encyclopaedia Britannica Award for Journalistic Excellence. Linda also reports science, environment and earth mysteries news for Clear Channel's Premiere Radio Networks and Unknowncountry.com. In 2005, she traveled to Amsterdam, Hawaii, and several other U. S. conferences to speak about her investigative journalism.

In 2004, Linda was on-camera TV reporter for The History Channel's documentary investigation of an unusual August 2004 cow death in Farnam, Nebraska. In November 2009, Linda was videotaped in Roswell, New Mexico, to provide document research background for a 1940s American policy of denial in the interest of national security about spacecraft and non-human body retrievals for a 2010 History Channel TV series, Ancient Aliens.

In 2010, Linda was honored with the 2010 Courage In Journalism Award at the National Press Club in Washington, D. C., by the Paradigm Research Group's X Conference. She has traveled in Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, England, Norway, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, Australia, Japan, Canada, Mexico, the Yucatan and Puerto Rico for research and productions.

Mysterious strong radio bursts from far beyond the Milky Way Galaxy have been detected that might go back in the universe's life between 5 to 11 billion light-years ago. Scientists are puzzled as to what causes these strong radio bursts, which occur approximately every one second in Earth time. She spoke with astronomy professor Jim Cordes who speculated that an evaporating black hole (as proposed by Stephen Hawking) could be behind the pulses. It's also possible the cause is some type of cataclysmic collision. "If I had to bet money, I would bet on something like a compact object - perhaps interacting with another object that might be a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy. It might be their magnetic fields that are interacting because when you get that kind of interaction, you have a lot of power to draw on,

Linda detailed how Comet ISON is headed for close approach to our sun in November. This primordial ball of ice could reach the brightness of the full moon. Scientists are meeting on August 1st at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to plan how to monitor this comet that's never been through our solar system before. A telescope and infrared equipment will be launched in a huge helium balloon that will rise to almost 23 miles in the upper atmosphere in order to study ISON. Research scientist Karl Hibbitts told Linda that one of their goals in studying ISON is to measure the ratio of carbon dioxide to water, which gives insight into the formation characteristics of our solar system, and the Oort Cloud where the comet arose