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To: BossyRoofer
any asteroids around the SUN that might be thrown into earth collision by solar plasma ejection?

Solar plasma would be highly energetic, but it is also very thin. A lot of extremely hot gas spread out over a very large volume of space. A solar plasma ejection could affect electronics, blow a microcircuit, things like that. It is not dense enough to modify an asteroid's orbit enough to collide with earth, UNLESS the asteroid's orbit were already close to intersecting earth's orbit anyway.

30 posted on 08/17/2002 7:26:30 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
good point...I see the primary effect of added mass in the flare as drag on all extrasolar objects in orbit around the sun...Its a change and we all know what happens if you stick a matchbook under one leg of a pool table...everything changes...Great Question! Great Answer, RW. Charateristic, I might add.
32 posted on 08/17/2002 7:34:32 PM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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