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Solar Tsunami to Strike Earth Tonight

Posted August 03, 2010 10:41 AM

From Fox News:

The Sun's surface erupted early Sunday morning, blasting tons of plasma into interplanetary space -- directly towards the Earth. That wall of ionized atoms should hit the planet tonight, say scientists, creating a geomagnetic storm and a spectacular light show and possibly threatening satellites in orbit.

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Re: Solar Tsunami to Strike Earth Tonight

08/05/2010 1:37 AM

Okay, as of now that was last night. Did anything important actually happen?

(I don't know, but am amused that a local IP is saying today that they will have some outages because of a satellite problem....)

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