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No, it didn't. We'd still be waiting on it.
If it struck on Friday it left the sun days before.
After all these yrs of saying it could happen, it finally did. What are the odds?
Solar flares are racist
Dang it! And I was expecting my password from the Nigerian prince yesterday to put that money in my account. Oh, well. Guess that $20,000,000 wasn’t meant to be after all.
More on yesterday’s flare at link below. Interesting info on Starlink satellites / failures further down in the article....
THE STARLINK INCIDENT: A minor geomagnetic storm is supposed to be minor. That’s why even experts were surprised on Feb. 4, 2022, when dozens of Starlink satellites started falling out of the sky. A weak CME had hit Earth’s magnetic field, and the resulting G1-class (minor) storm was bringing them down:
How could this happen? A new paper published in the research journal Space Weather provides the answer.
“Although it was only ‘minor,’ the storm pumped almost 1200 gigawatts of energy into Earth’s atmosphere,” explains lead author Tong Dang of the University of Science and Technology of China. “This extra energy heated Earth’s upper atmosphere and sharply increased aerodynamic drag on the satellites.”
SpaceX launched the satellites from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 3, 2022. Forty-nine (49) Starlinks were crowded inside the Falcon 9 rocket; less than a quarter would survive.
https://www.spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=16&month=09&year=2022