Coronal Mass Ejection Reaches Earth On Sunday Night (spaceweatherlive.com) 32
"A long duration C2 solar flare launched an asymmetrical full halo coronal mass ejection into space," tweeted the nonprofit science site SpaceWeatherLive (sharing a black-and-white video). "The solar plasma cloud is likely to arrive at Earth late on Sunday, 13 March. Minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions are likely with a chance of moderate G2 conditions."
Long-time Slashdot reader PuddleBoy shared this additional report from their web site: The solar flare lasted for hours and launched an asymmetrical full halo coronal mass ejection into space. Most of the ejecta is heading north-west but a significant part of the plasma cloud is expected to arrive at our planet. The coronal mass ejection was launched at a speed of about 600km/s which is a fairly average speed. This puts the likely arrival time at Earth late on Sunday, 13 March.
Minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions (Kp5) are likely with a chance of moderate G2 conditions which equals a Kp-value of 6. Middle latitude locations might catch a glimpse of the aurora near the northern (or southern) horizon under optimal conditions.
Long-time Slashdot reader PuddleBoy shared this additional report from their web site: The solar flare lasted for hours and launched an asymmetrical full halo coronal mass ejection into space. Most of the ejecta is heading north-west but a significant part of the plasma cloud is expected to arrive at our planet. The coronal mass ejection was launched at a speed of about 600km/s which is a fairly average speed. This puts the likely arrival time at Earth late on Sunday, 13 March.
Minor G1 geomagnetic storm conditions (Kp5) are likely with a chance of moderate G2 conditions which equals a Kp-value of 6. Middle latitude locations might catch a glimpse of the aurora near the northern (or southern) horizon under optimal conditions.
At night? (Score:3)
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Obviously fake news, the sun doesn't shine at night, any fool can see that.
What? The SUN supports now ... (Score:1)
Corona mass injections = vaccinations?
SCNR ;-)
"late sunday" ... (Score:4, Insightful)
... in what time zone? North America / Pacific? Central European Standard Time?
Whoever wrote this summary knows that the Earth rotates, right?
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UTC
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Dunno, maybe its a reference to Cubic Time: https://timecube.2enp.com/ [2enp.com]
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Whoever wrote this summary knows that the Earth rotates, right?
Just as much that they know there's a link you can click to get the details.
Details that aren't summarized... in the summary... because they are details.
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The actual detail anyone would be interested in is a link to a picture on TWITTER showing where the ejection will hit. I have that website is adblocked,
Ditto (in my case, script blocking via noscript, under a default policy of blocking sites unless {permanently or momentarily} whitelisted).
I haven't viewed any Twitter postings since they disabled the non-javascript viewing mechanism.
There's no WAY I'm going to allow Twitter (or any other company whose business model involves spying on their users and sellin
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Clearly you didn't even click the link you're telling people to click, because that detail isn't present.
Have any more useless advice to dispense?
"North West" (Score:2)
Most of the ejecta is heading north-west
I am also curious how a space compass works.
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No, the sun cycles around Earth's disk. Common Core Science is bogus and rigged.
What? (Score:2)
They let Don back on Twitter?
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They let Don back on Twitter?
Hell yea they did, check out what he has to say about it [twitter.com].
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More like: https://twitter.com/barronjohn... [twitter.com]
even funnier (Score:1)
Even funnier are the news stories saying it will arrive late Sunday / early Monday. Time zones have they not, said Yoda. The CME arrived March 13th at approximately 11:00 UT.
You're welcome.
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Even funnier are the news stories saying it will arrive late Sunday / early Monday. Time zones have they not, said Yoda. The CME arrived March 13th at approximately 11:00 UT.
You're welcome.
Damn, did I sleep through the end of the world, or is this some kind of Triffid [wikipedia.org] situation and I should stay inside until my food runs out?
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Good news everyone, end of world is not this week and not by CME. Instead it's likely Putin will bomb weapon supply line from NATO ally Poland to Ukraine within two weeks and that lights up the party.
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but that's just what they threatened (from CNBC, March 11 7:08am EST)
Speaking to Russiaâ(TM)s Channel One broadcaster on Saturday, Russiaâ(TM)s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov issued a warning to the West that could lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO.
âoeWe warned the United States that pumping Ukraine with weapons from a number of countries orchestrated by them is not just a dangerous move, but an action that turns the corresponding convoys into legitimate targets,
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No, it's not what they threatened. The actual statement:
We warned the United States that pumping Ukraine with weapons from a number of countries orchestrated by them is not just a dangerous move, but an action that turns the corresponding convoys into legitimate targets.
This says nothing about striking inside of a NATO country, only that doing so "turns the corresponding convoys into legitimate targets." The part that says "Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov issued a warning to the West that could lead to a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO" portion is assumption on Channel One's part, and I highly doubt any NATO country will move into Ukraine to strike Russia if the convoys are attacked i
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> Every article on Slashdot always just says "You are not allowed to use this resource." where there is supposed to be a form to submit a comment.
And yet, here you are...
Guess that means the rest of it is also just lies.
Timing was off (Score:3)
'Most of the ejecta is heading north-west' (Score:2)
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I just googled it, and I am assured there is no north and south in space... So wtf?
Sure there is: Relative to any spinning astronomical body. Right-hand rule: Fingers pointing the direction of spin, thumb points north, i.e. looking down from the sky at the north pole along the spin axis you see the object spin counter-clockwise (by definition).
Of course though the Sun's and the Earth's Norths are in the same general direction, they differ by quite a bit - by over 26 degrees. The Earth's pole direction (
relative to ... (Score:1)
Yuck! (Score:2)
That was not rain?