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Earth-directed coronal mass ejection from the sun
Phys.Org ^ | 03-15-2013 | Karen C. Fox & Provided by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Posted on 03/15/2013 2:34:49 PM PDT by Red Badger

On March 15, 2013, at 2:54 a.m. EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space and can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) and ESA/NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, show that the CME left the sun at speeds of around 900 miles per second, which is a fairly fast speed for CMEs. Historically, CMEs at this speed have caused mild to moderate effects at Earth.

The NASA research models also show that the CME may pass by the Spitzer and Messenger spacecraft. NASA has notified their mission operators. There is, however, only minor particle radiation associated with this event, which is what would normally concern operators of interplanetary spacecraft since the particles can trip on board computer electronics. Not to be confused with a solar flare, a CME is a solar phenomenon that can send solar particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later. Earth-directed CMEs can cause a space weather phenomenon called a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when they connect with the outside of the Earth's magnetic envelope, the magnetosphere, for an extended period of time. In the past, geomagnetic storms caused by CMEs such as this one have usually been of mild to medium strength.


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: carringtonevent; catastrophism; cme; coronalmassejection; maunderminimum; solarflares; space; sun; weather

The ESA and NASA Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured these images of the sun spitting out a coronal mass ejection (CME) on March 15, 2013, from 3:24 to 4:00 a.m. EDT. This type of image is known as a coronagraph, since a disk is placed over the sun to better see the dimmer atmosphere around it, called the corona. Credit: ESA&NASA/SOHO

EE..............

1 posted on 03/15/2013 2:34:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

>>Earth-directed coronal mass ejection from the sun<<

Sounds vaguely erotic...


2 posted on 03/15/2013 2:43:23 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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To: Red Badger

Ok, who fed the sun beans again? You know they don’t sit well with him!


3 posted on 03/15/2013 2:44:03 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

Hum. This has potential. Where do we submit/enter the exact target coordinates for its impact on Rock3?


4 posted on 03/15/2013 2:44:15 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (()
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To: SunkenCiv; KevinDavis

Space ping!..........


5 posted on 03/15/2013 2:44:35 PM PDT by Red Badger (Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
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To: freedumb2003

Only if you’re not on the receiving end.....


6 posted on 03/15/2013 2:46:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Red Badger

ping


7 posted on 03/15/2013 2:48:53 PM PDT by laplata
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To: BenLurkin
Only if you’re not on the receiving end.....


8 posted on 03/15/2013 2:55:17 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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To: freedumb2003

NSFW.


9 posted on 03/15/2013 3:01:25 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Due Process 2013: "Burn the M*****-F***er Down!")
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To: freedumb2003

Out of depths of lack of knowledge, I assume these solar particles are charged ions, which I am told interact with water vapor at very high altitudes to form wispy clouds that exert a cooling effect on Earth’s atmosphere.
If true, how significant, it at all??!!.


10 posted on 03/15/2013 3:41:43 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: Red Badger

Algorezeera sleeping on the job again. I don’t believe he allowed this happen! Wake up Al! You’re supposed to be the big climate czar!


11 posted on 03/15/2013 4:09:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: Elsiejay

What!?! You have to be kidding! It is your car that is screwing up the weather. Everyone knows that. :)


12 posted on 03/15/2013 4:29:32 PM PDT by rey
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To: freedumb2003

Women, Childern and Minorities will be hit the hardest.


13 posted on 03/15/2013 4:40:40 PM PDT by BushCountry (What does it matter now!!)
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To: freedumb2003; All

Someone must have blown out yer pilot light!!!

;-)


14 posted on 03/15/2013 4:41:12 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: Red Badger

Ever notice similarities beteeen Knowing and Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush


15 posted on 03/15/2013 5:12:50 PM PDT by xkaydet65
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