Solar Eruption To Reach Earth Soon 159
rastos1 writes "Spacecraft from NASA recently observed an eruption on the Sun sending billions of tons of particles toward Earth. The solar eruption, called a coronal mass ejection, occurred Tuesday at 1:24 a.m. EDT (0524 GMT) and sent charged particles streaking outward at 380 miles per second. That's just over 1.3 million mph (2.2 million km/h). The solar fallout from the sun storm is expected to reach Earth over the next few days. Interestingly, an unnamed icy comet from the outer solar system dove into the sun and disintegrated nearly a the same time (video)."
Re:Translation please! (Score:5, Funny)
Could you give that in manhattans^(1/2) per dog year, too?
On a scale of one to tipsy, I'd say it's right between ocelot feathers and 7!.
Simultaneity problem with that comet (Score:3, Funny)
The sun is vast, and that outward pulse appears to happen almost simultaneous with the impact of the comet.
Which means I very much doubt it's related, as an effect would still have to have traveled at least some major fraction of the Sun's radius and back before the event would have been triggered.
Granted, I suppose the comet could have been traveling away from us, and since the signal of the blast is traveling *toward* us, it basically pulled a Picard Maneuver [memory-alpha.org] and partially overtook the comet light.
One word (Score:5, Funny)
*Burp*
I guess .... (Score:5, Funny)
Coincidence, I Think NOT! (Score:0, Funny)
An icy comet stabs the Sun.
A huge coronal mass ejection heads towards Earth.
Microsoft stock soars.
Only now do I realize that the stock market is tied to ass-troll-logical events.
That was no comet (Score:4, Funny)
One of my favorites (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NBD, it seems (Score:4, Funny)
The CME was the Sun's defense mechanism when it saw the comet coming right at it. It ejected in self-defense.