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Topic: Here We Go Again!
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
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posted 09-12-2000 11:09 PM
     
OK, folks, start watching the sky again! This morning the sun shot forth another spectacular full-halo coronal mass ejection (around 8:13 EDT); these lil protons, whizzing along at a rate of 986 km/s (which for you non-metric folk translates to about 2.24 million miles per hour) is due to hit the earth on Thursday, approximately 41 hours after being ejected from the sun's corona. What does this mean? Another great chance for aurora in the midlatitudes (that's most of the United States!  ) as well as a good possibility of radio and tv disruptions once again. Watch for aurora about midnight your local time this Thursday, September 14. And on this note, I will report that today's latest piccie of the sun showed a mere one teeny tiny sunspot marring it's face: the lowest sunspot activity to date this year. But this doesn't mean that the solar sunspot max is over... it should in fact last another year. I think she's just winding up for another big blast, hehehe! ------------------
[monger=000FFF,FF0000]"I Ride the Stormcloud and the Night!"[/monger]
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Graysith on September 12, 2000]
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 209.255.159.189
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Graysith
Chosen Daughter
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posted 09-14-2000 12:02 AM
The date I was given was the night of Thursday the 14th. But according to my calculations, and allowing for error, the ejection should strike the earth's magnetosphere 36-41 hours after it initially occurred. Which would put it closer to midnight tonight. If your radio was screwing up, that may be heralding it's approach. Symtoms usually include your normal station disappearing, and then receiving another, far more distant, station in its place. The CME which occurred on August 12 was travelling faster than originally calculated. This one may be doing likewise. Can't hurt to look... and once again we have a blasted full moon! We MIGHT get lucky and have a strong enough aurora to overcome the brilliance of that harvest moon. The "exploding" flare headed in our direction was a pretty spectacular one, according to what I've read. High proton density and fast velocity! So anyway, go out and look. I'll keep everyone posted as to how things look here in the Midwest. ------------------
[monger=000FFF,FF0000]"I Ride the Stormcloud and the Night!"[/monger]
Posts: 3904 | From: Indianola, Iowa | Registered: Jul 2000 | Logged: 152.163.207.198
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