I agree, but that event was with the magnetosphere still intact? I’m thinking if it was stripped away when it hit it would have been a whole different ballgame?
Since we are talking about CME events, I don’t know if you are hip to this guy’s site or not, but it’s very good and I think you would like it. I check it everyday out of curiosity. Fantastic assembly of real time solar data monitoring! :)
It’s a good site. I need to start paying closer attention to it. I now have a small radio telescope set up that detects & records (My computer records them!) solar radio bursts. Thanks!