[extropy-chat] Historic Solar Flare

[Samantha Atkins]

It is quite surprising.  The 2nd flare last week was considered statistically 
anomalous by current models.  To get a third and more powerful flare than 
either within a week must certainly be very unusual.    It is not an area of 
any real personal expertise but what I am reading at least looks as if it 
will cause a fair amount of rework of some of our solar behavior models. 

We are quite fortunate that this one was not headed squarely our way.  I hope 
this wild level of activity calms down before we catch a good size one.   

- samantha


On Wednesday 05 November 2003 13:18, kevinfreels at hotmail.com wrote:
> Gee, with all the sudden flaring, I have to wonder if there is something
> going on thatthey are not telling us.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karen Rand Smigrodzki" <karen at smigrodzki.org>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 10:06 PM
> Subject: [extropy-chat] Historic Solar Flare
>
> > For those interested:
> >
> >
> > Space Weather News for Nov. 5, 2003
> > http://spaceweather.com
> >
> > Giant sunspot 486 unleashed another intense solar flare on Nov. 4th (1950
> > UT), and this one could be historic. The blast saturated X-ray sensors
> > onboard GOES satellites. The last time this happened, in April 2001, the
> > flare that saturated the sensors was classified as an X20--the biggest
> > ever recorded at the time. Yesterday's flare appears to have been even
> > stronger.
> >
> >
> > --karen
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