[FOTZeiss] Fw: 2nd Solar Blast Just Misses Earth

[Glenn A. Walsh]

Second solar eruption early Saturday afternoon.

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--- On Sun, 8/8/10, SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com> wrote:

> From: SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com>
> Subject: Solar Blast Just Misses Earth
> To: "SpaceWeather.com" <swlist at spaceweather.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 2:20 AM
> Space Weather News for August 8,
> 2010
> http://spaceweather.com
> 
> SOLAR BLAST JUST MISSES EARTH: On Saturday, August 7th,
> magnetic fields around sunspot 1093 erupted.  NASA
> spacecraft and many amateur astronomers photographed the
> blast, which produced a strong M1-class solar flare and
> hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) into space--apparently
> just missing the sun-Earth line. The explosion also made
> whooshing sounds in the loudspeakers of some shortwave
> radios. Visit http://spaceweather.com for audio
> recordings and movies of this latest solar event.
> 
> AURORA RECAP:  Last week's geomagnetic storm sparked
> Northern Lights as far south as Iowa in the United States,
> and some nice Southern Lights over Antarctica.  For the
> latest images, start browsing here:  http://www.spaceweather.com/aurora/gallery_01aug10_page4.htm
> 
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