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SOLAR FLARE headed to earth....M6.6
Spaceweather ^ | Feb 13th, 2011

Posted on 02/13/2011 1:56:04 PM PST by TaraP

SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot 1158 has just unleashed the strongest solar flare of the year, an M6.6-category blast @ 1738 UT on Feb. 13th. The eruption appears to have launched a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. It also produced a loud blast of radio emissions heard in shortwave receivers around the dayside of our planet. Stay tuned for updates!

BEHEMOTH SUNSPOT 1158: Sunspot 1158 is growing rapidly (48 hour movie) and crackling with M-class solar flares. The active region is now more than 100,000 km wide with at least a dozen Earth-sized dark cores scattered beneath its unstable magnetic canopy. Earth-directed eruptions are likely in the hours ahead.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: sol; solarflares; sun; sunspots
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To: Wilum

THis is Lawrence, Kansas, can anybody hear us...THis is Lawrence, Kansas, can anybody hear us...THis is Lawrence, Kansas, can anybody hear us...


21 posted on 02/13/2011 2:41:32 PM PST by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: ully2

They know because the charged particles are not traveling the speed of light and arrive days after the X-ray or other radiation tell-tales.


22 posted on 02/13/2011 2:42:11 PM PST by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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To: RaceBannon
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,....
23 posted on 02/13/2011 2:44:22 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: RaceBannon
Waltzing Matilda, waltzing Matilda,....
24 posted on 02/13/2011 2:44:33 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: UCANSEE2
Give me enough of these and I'll give you a coronal mass ejection.


25 posted on 02/13/2011 2:58:43 PM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!!!)
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To: vetvetdoug

Drat. I lost that last glass Coke bottle, and it’s still too cold to open a window. I still have the shades drawn. Maybe I’ll leave a beer bottle tied to the key, instead...


26 posted on 02/13/2011 3:01:24 PM PST by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: TaraP
Now in STEREO.
27 posted on 02/13/2011 3:04:23 PM PST by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: TaraP

Movie of the solar flare at http://spaceweather.com/


28 posted on 02/13/2011 3:05:27 PM PST by Nobel_1 (bring on the Patriots!)
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To: TaraP

The Sun has been inactive longer than it’s cycle would predict. Looks like El Sol is waking up.


29 posted on 02/13/2011 3:08:03 PM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: TaraP
From Lunar Pioneer 4

30 posted on 02/13/2011 3:11:44 PM PST by Prospero (non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
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To: All
13 Feb Solar Flare Headed Towards Earth

31 posted on 02/13/2011 3:12:54 PM PST by Nobel_1 (bring on the Patriots!)
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To: Soothesayer

You gotta stick it out with the rest of us.


32 posted on 02/13/2011 3:20:03 PM PST by Twinkie (Two wrongs don't make a right.)
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To: Nobel_1

Thanks for posting!


33 posted on 02/13/2011 3:20:36 PM PST by TaraP (An APPEASER is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last)
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To: TaraP

We were warned.......

34 posted on 02/13/2011 3:24:06 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: TaraP

We were warned.......

35 posted on 02/13/2011 3:24:10 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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To: TaraP

Great stuff. Love the astronomy posts.


36 posted on 02/13/2011 3:24:26 PM PST by windsorknot (Int)
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To: ully2

Satellites......


37 posted on 02/13/2011 3:25:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? Google your own name. Want to have fun? Google your friend's names.....)
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38 posted on 02/13/2011 3:28:16 PM PST by Nick Danger (Pin the fail on the donkey)
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To: steelyourfaith

ping.


39 posted on 02/13/2011 3:31:59 PM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: diverteach

Mas fina! Bien!


40 posted on 02/13/2011 3:34:17 PM PST by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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