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The Solar Spoon

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Overstability causes the Sun's core to mix every few hundred million years. This induces geological ice ages and temporarily depresses the solar neutrino flux.

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DILKE, F., GOUGH, D. The Solar Spoon. Nature 240, 262–264 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240262a0

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