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Sun Erupts With Major Solar Flare
Spacve.com/YahooNews ^
| 3/5/12
| SPACE.com Staff
Posted on 03/05/2012 10:23:10 AM PST by Kartographer
A major solar flare erupted from the sun late last night (March 4) sending an explosion of plasma and charged particles hurtling toward Earth.
The flare was an X1.1-class solar flare and exploded from the surface of the sun at 11:13 p.m. EST (0413 GMT March 5), according to the Space Weather Prediction Center operated by the National Weather Service.
X-class flares are the most powerful type of solar storm, with M-class eruptions falling within the mid-range, and C-class flares being the weakest.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; science; solaractivity; solarflare; sun
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IN COMING!
To: Kartographer
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03/05/2012 10:24:44 AM PST
by
AU72
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:25:07 AM PST
by
allmost
To: Kartographer
So what night do we look for an outstanding Aurora Borealis?
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:25:50 AM PST
by
EBH
(God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
To: AU72
beginning late Tuesday (March 6) and lasting through Wednesday (March 7)
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:30:14 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
beginning late Tuesday (March 6) and lasting through Wednesday (March 7)Thanks, maybe my tinfoil hat could be good for something.
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:38:35 AM PST
by
AU72
To: Kartographer
"It's coming right at us!"
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:45:03 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Yo-Yo
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:46:12 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: Kartographer
“Anybody not wearing 2 million sunblock is gonna have a real bad day. Get it?”
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posted on
03/05/2012 10:58:57 AM PST
by
agere_contra
("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
To: dfwgator
It’s the big red ball in the sky,
but that’s not important right now.
To: Kartographer
“Looks like I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue.”
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posted on
03/05/2012 11:01:15 AM PST
by
apoxonu
To: Pride in the USA
Pingaling!
beginning late Tuesday (March 6) and lasting through Wednesday (March 7)
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posted on
03/05/2012 11:04:16 AM PST
by
lonevoice
(Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
To: Kartographer
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posted on
03/05/2012 11:08:49 AM PST
by
bgill
(Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
To: agere_contra
Flare? What Flare?
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posted on
03/05/2012 11:16:40 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: Kartographer
Must be all those SUVs on the sun...
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posted on
03/05/2012 11:20:14 AM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Mitt Romney is SEVERELY conservative - and I'm SEVERELY against giving him my vote!)
To: Kartographer
“Sun Erupts With Major Solar Flare”
Women and children most affected.
Bush blamed for unruly Sun activity.
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posted on
03/05/2012 11:30:16 AM PST
by
Hulka
To: Kartographer
Better alert the EPA...solar flares and volcanos are the worst poluters...EPA will likely shut the sun down.
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03/05/2012 12:17:43 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
To: bgill
To put it in perspective, that flare is several times bigger than the Earth.
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:29:54 PM PST
by
Deo volente
(God willing, America will survive this Obamination.)
To: Deo volente
....should we FReep like there’s no tomorrow?
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posted on
03/05/2012 12:40:42 PM PST
by
txhurl
(Thank you, Andrew Breitbart. In your untimely passing, you have exposed these people one last time.)
To: lonevoice
Yep. Expect a lot of those “strange sky sounds” to be heard all over the world as the energy waves produced by the solar flare pierce our ionosphere and disrupt the Earth’s magnetic field. I’d also expect some severe weather for the next couple of days and a temporary disruption in parts of the electrical grid.
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