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Blast from the past - Scientists worry about Sun’s magnetic storm

by YankeeJim | October 17, 2010 at 07:10 am

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Look out Earthling computers, here come a blast from the past. In the article below it concludes that there should be concern about a “massive CME.” Not knowing what a CME is because the article doesn’t spell it out, I could have gone about my business or looked it up.

I looked it up and now what. Do I take my laptop into a lead cocoon and wait until passes? Will there be a meltdown? Will it ignite everything in its path? Should I buy ice for the refrigerator?

I am more concerned about Republican Wall Street lobbyists taking over the USA.

“A bubble of gas and charged particles, similar to a solar flare, ejected from the Sun over several hours.”
www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather_glossary.html

“An outward eruption of billions of tonnes of material thrown into space from the Sun's corona. Caused by magnetic storms on the Sun. The most energetic of all solar explosions, they send material at high speed (200 - 400 km/s) into space, and have a great influence on the magnetosphere. ...”
www.aerospaceguide.net/glossary/index.html

“What is this strange ring that has been developing on the Sun?

Sunspot 1112, located in the southeast quadrant, has been the source of a giant filament that is currently stretching 400,000 km across the surface of the Sun.

However, today, there appears to be development of a enormous circular ring which looks to be linking with the huge magnetic filament of sunspot 1112. Most of today's various wavelength images of the Sun all show this feature over at the SDO (Solar Dynamics Observatory) - NASA website.

SpaceWeather.com today reports,

A vast filament of magnetism is cutting across the Sun's southern hemisphere today. A bright 'hot spot' just north of the filament's midpoint is UV radiation from sunspot 1112. The proximity is no coincidence; the filament appears to be rooted in the sunspot below. If sunspot flares, it could cause the entire structure to erupt. This active region merits watching...

What concerns me is that if indeed this is a huge magnetic filament nearly encircling the entire Sun, it is now currently directly facing the Earth. If sunspot 1112 does erupt, could the entire filament explode into a massive CME?

This particular phenomenon will be all over in a few days as it rotates around the Sun, but it serves to remind us that there are more and more events happening on the Sun as we transit into the next solar cycle maximum (peaking ~ 2012 into 2013).

http://beforeitsnews.com/...eloping_on_the_Sun.ht...”

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at 07:52 on October 17th, 2010

Very interesting. Since I can do little about it I will not worry. I also do not worry about reps taking over because they could not be worse than dems.

Very good information.