CME headed for Earth!

Redux

United States21 Posts

May 26 2010 00:28 GMT

http://spaceweather.com/

SOLAR BLAST: A magnetic filament on the sun erupted yesterday, May 24th, and the blast hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) in the general direction of Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the action around the blast site in 10xHDTV resolution:

http://spaceweather.com/swpod2010/25may10/filament_strip.jpg

Shortly after the eruption, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted a billion-ton CME racing away from the sun: movie. NOAA forecasters say there is a 35% chance of geomagnetic activity on May 27th when the cloud delivers a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras.

Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recording:

http://www.spaceweather.com/images2010/24may10/cme_c3_big.gif?PHPSESSID=96itv8jivtl5jjb5oggvomt4p5

Prepare for a big @#$ earthquake.

Sorry for the doom.

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

May 26 2010 00:32 GMT

What kind of effects does an event like this have on the earth? What (if anything) should we worry about?
Sorry i'm not much of an astronomer.

Destro

Netherlands1206 Posts

May 26 2010 00:32 GMT

cool!

will have to look outside for some kickass northern lights

dhe95

United States1213 Posts

May 26 2010 00:33 GMT

Atmosphere, do your stuff. (Hopefully;; i'm not good with astronomy either)

THE_DOMINATOR

United States309 Posts

May 26 2010 00:33 GMT

so were not going to die right?

Destro

Netherlands1206 Posts

May 26 2010 00:34 GMT

DONT BE AN IDIOT!

thats not till 2012! ;p

kOre

Canada3642 Posts

May 26 2010 00:34 GMT

Atmosphere > CME

It'll be a pebble before it reaches the ground ... I hope.

On_Slaught

United States12190 Posts

May 26 2010 00:37 GMT

Interesting stuff.

I can't help but feel that if this was as big as the OP makes it out to be it would be all over the news. Dunno could be wrong about this. Hopefully nothing bad happens.

Sadist

United States7326 Posts

May 26 2010 00:41 GMT

doesnt this happen regularly? Some satellites might go down....woohoo.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

May 26 2010 00:41 GMT

#10

Oh man, I hope it blows over before the MSL finals. Don't wanna have a power outage.

kOre

Canada3642 Posts

May 26 2010 00:41 GMT

#11

On_Slaught makes a good point, means we're not all going to die, whew.

Destro

Netherlands1206 Posts

May 26 2010 00:43 GMT

#12

there was one on may 9th, its not exactly an unusual thing to happen. American Media might call for end of the world, so fox news might ask you to vote republican in the new earthen republic after the initial fallout.

Azrael1111

United States550 Posts

May 26 2010 00:43 GMT

#13

The article kinda tells you what will happen.

"High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras."

Terrakin

United States1440 Posts

May 26 2010 00:44 GMT

#14

no, we wouldn't die, all our technology would. I mean, this may not even be that big of a deal, but in 1859 a solar flare took out all the telegraph poles. Imagine if this one takes out all the satellites and power transformers.

lets get ready to live 100 years in the past (besides running generators at least)