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Solar Tsunami
Spaceweather.com ^ | 12/23/09 | Spaceweather

Posted on 12/23/2009 4:05:28 PM PST by winoneforthegipper

Yesterday, Dec. 22nd at approximately 0455 UT, magnetic fields around sunspot 1036 erupted, producing a C7-class solar flare. NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft was almost directly above the sunspot at the time of the blast and recorded this extreme ultraviolet movie:

The shadowy wave racing away from the blast site is a "solar tsunami"--a swell of hot, magnetized plasma about 100,000 km high packing as much energy as a million megatons of TNT. The tsunami petered out before it went more than halfway around the sun, but another manifestation of the blast is still going. The eruption hurled a faint coronal mass ejection (CME) into space and the billion-ton cloud should cross Earth's orbit on or about Dec. 25th. A glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field could spark polar auroras for Christmas.

(Excerpt) Read more at spaceweather.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: catastrophism; hamradio; science; solar; space
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Good Stuff!
1 posted on 12/23/2009 4:05:29 PM PST by winoneforthegipper
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To: winoneforthegipper

Here’s the link to the movie....

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2009/22dec09/eit195.gif?PHPSESSID=rb2qgaka6mgbkipahpfko8j9n6


2 posted on 12/23/2009 4:06:03 PM PST by winoneforthegipper (I will follow the "True North-star" and that's, Sarah!)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Does this mean summer is coming?


3 posted on 12/23/2009 4:09:16 PM PST by goodnesswins (Become a Precinct Committee Person/Officer....in the GOP...or do NOT complain.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

So does this herald the return of global warming?


4 posted on 12/23/2009 4:09:31 PM PST by lafroste
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To: winoneforthegipper

I liked the pics of the snowflakes lower on the page.


5 posted on 12/23/2009 4:09:31 PM PST by republicangel
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To: goodnesswins
Does this mean summer is coming?

70 degrees in Dallas today...maybe algore is right.

6 posted on 12/23/2009 4:15:01 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: republicangel

This was an exciting coronal mass ejection . Much of the now well known global cooling has been the result of no flares or even sun spots. We have had 83 solar flux and the most sun spots in months (43) and are well on are way in solar cycle 24!! The ice age is less likely but polar caps will continue to expand for awhile.


7 posted on 12/23/2009 4:17:03 PM PST by catarac
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To: winoneforthegipper

Bookmark


8 posted on 12/23/2009 4:21:46 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: catarac
I can see the impact on a global scale, that which we call solar weather, however, in my estimation the prevailing winds were and are a more direct reason for the large melt we seen in this past decade. Now how much of that is influenced by Sol, you got me....lol!
9 posted on 12/23/2009 4:25:59 PM PST by winoneforthegipper (I will follow the "True North-star" and that's, Sarah!)
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To: winoneforthegipper; AlexW; bikerman; Blue_Spark; bitterohiogunclinger; Bobalu; BraveMan; ...
I don't have the date and flare info right on hand but it seems to me towards the end of the last peak there were several hugh X-class flares.

The one I'm thinking of was in the range of X-17, something around there. Things are looking up, we may be getting into the new cycle... The P.V. Sundancers are beginning to awake.


10 posted on 12/23/2009 4:33:25 PM PST by steveo (2010 never again)
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Things are looking up, we may be getting into the new cycle.

Watching for it.

11 posted on 12/23/2009 4:35:43 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: winoneforthegipper

“Now how much of that is influenced by Sol, you got me....”

All winds and the energy they contain has the sun as it’s origin.


12 posted on 12/23/2009 4:36:03 PM PST by babygene (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure...)
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To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
 
Catastrophism
 
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13 posted on 12/23/2009 4:45:34 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Yeah, but I couldn’t get squat on 15 meters today.

On the other hand, Austria was booming in on 20 meters


14 posted on 12/23/2009 4:46:31 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of the Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Night Hides Not
70 degrees in Dallas today...maybe algore is right.

But, but Algore said GW is caused by man. Not the sun...

15 posted on 12/23/2009 4:50:50 PM PST by 386wt
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To: winoneforthegipper
Women and minorities hardest hit.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

16 posted on 12/23/2009 4:55:04 PM PST by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: goodnesswins
Does this mean summer is coming?

Heh......I flipped thru the Weather Channel today, and noticed that sunset is one minute later tomorrow.

17 posted on 12/23/2009 5:03:01 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Cool! Errrrr, um, Hot!


18 posted on 12/23/2009 5:03:07 PM PST by DallasDeb (USAFA '06 Mom)
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To: ErnBatavia

WOOOHOOOOO!


19 posted on 12/23/2009 5:03:59 PM PST by goodnesswins (Become a Precinct Committee Person/Officer....in the GOP...or do NOT complain.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Well, it sure wasn’t “man”. We are not a hair on a ant’s butt.These flat earth kooks that made this stuff up will decay into history as Al Gorians who hoped to take our money and control our lives on a lie.They are so pathetic to watch as the die like worms on a snow covered sidewalk.


20 posted on 12/23/2009 5:07:51 PM PST by catarac
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