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Subject: Heads up! The Leonids are coming Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:00:56 -0600 From: NASA Science News Reply-To: expressreply@sslab.msfc.nasa.gov To: express-delivery@sslab.msfc.nasa.gov

NASA Science News for November 10, 1999:

Heads Up! - The upcoming Leonids meteor shower (Nov. 17-18) is predicted to be the biggest in decades and perhaps for the next century. While we are safe on the ground, satellite operators are concerned that even small impacts could short-circuit satellites. NASA will coordinate a team that helps track changes in the shower that could be a storm. Full story:

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/ast10nov99_1.htm

And while you're looking you may find something of interest here.. http://dxlc.com/solar/

Today's 343 sunspot number is not included in the report here. Hmmmmm

Recent development

The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled on November 10. Solar wind speed ranged between 519 and 652 km/sec under the influence of a coronal stream.

Solar flare activity was moderate. Solar flux was 248.5, the planetary A index was 12 (3-hour Kp indices: 3323 3333, Boulder K indices: 3323 3323). Region 8751 was quiet and stable, the region will rotate off the visible disk today. Region 8753 developed slowly and could produce additional M flares. Region 8754 decayed and was quiet. Region 8755 was quiet and stable. Region 8757 was mostly unchanged and quiet. Region 8758 decayed and was quiet. Region 8759 is still a large and complex region capable of major flaring, further M flares are likely and there is a chance of a major proton X flare. Region 8760 developed futher and is a complex region capable of producing occasional major flares. Region 8761 nearly managed to produce an M flare despite its small size. Region 8762 was quiet and stable. New region 8763 rotated partly into view at the southeast limb and is likely to generate further C flares and occasional M flares. New region 8764 emerged in the northwest quadrant.

******(This resulted in the highest NOAA/SEC sunspot number so far during cycle 23.) ******

Flares and CMEs

7 C flares and 3 M flares were recorded on November 10. Region 8753 was the source of a C4.9 flare at 07:14, an impulsive M1.5 flare at 15:49 UTC and an impulsive M1.1/1N flare at 22:12 UTC. Region 8759 produced an M1.3/1N flare at 01:45 UTC and a C3.7 flare at 06:05 UTC. Region 8760 generated many sub flares and a single C flare, a C5.2 event at 03:34 UTC. Region 8761 surprisingly produced a C9.6 flare at 19:52 UTC while region 8763 managed a C2.8/1F flare at 16:47 UTC. LASCO C2 and C3 images have been unavailable since November 8 and it's unknown whether any of the flares were associated with coronal mass ejections.

The background x-ray flux is at the class C1-C2 level.

Coronal holes

A large coronal hole mostly in the southern hemisphere and extending across the solar equator into the northern hemisphere was in a geoeffective position November 4-9.

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), November 11, 1999

Answers

OOoohhh... spooky, just coincidence of course, but now at 6:13 PST Peter Jennings is reporting about a threat from solar storms to "an ever increasing wired planet", to use his words. "A storm on the sun and earth is told to watch out"

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), November 11, 1999.

Doomer Emulator Mode ON.

Of course those darned pollies will write, "what's this got to do with Y2K!" Hey DGI's, do you really believe that this stuff is just "a coincidence"????

Doomer Emulator mode OFF.

Actually Michael, I found this interesting, thanks for posting.

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), November 11, 1999.


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