[FOTZeiss] Fw: Farside Solar Flares

[Glenn A. Walsh]

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--- On Wed, 11/3/10, SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com> wrote:

> From: SpaceWeather.com <swlist at spaceweather.com>
> Subject: Farside Solar Flares
> To: "SpaceWeather.com" <swlist at spaceweather.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 5:03 PM
> Space Weather News for Nov. 3, 2010
> http://spaceweather.com
> 
> FARSIDE SOLAR FLARES: An active region just over the sun's
> eastern horizon is crackling with solar flares and hurling
> material high above the stellar surface.  One of
> today's flares, a C4-class event, created a wave of
> ionization in Earth's upper atmosphere despite the fact that
> the blast site was not directly visible from Earth. 
> The source of this activity appears to be old sunspot 1112,
> which has spent the last ~12 days transiting the far side of
> the sun, and is now about to turn back toward our
> planet.  Visit http://spaceweather.com for movies of
> today's activity and updates.
> 
> COMET HARTLEY UPDATE:  NASA's Deep Impact (EPOXI)
> probe is closing in on Comet Hartley 2 for a daring flyby on
> Nov. 4th.  The small but active comet is full of
> surprises, with spinning jets, geysers of cyanide gas, and a
> strangely pickle-shaped core.  Mission scientists
> expect to reveal first images from the flyby during a press
> conference on Thursday afternoon, around 4 pm EDT. Tune into
> NASA TV to follow events live, and meanwhile read this story
> for a preview:
> http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/02nov_epoxi2/
> 
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