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SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers solar flares auroras and near-Earth asteroids
"FILAMENT ERUPTION, EARTH-DIRECTED: On Sept. 2nd, an enormous filament of dark plasma, which had been snaking across the face of the sun for days, became unstable and erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the event (movies: #1, #2). A CME emerging from the blast site appears to have an Earth-directed component"
2014 RC a 21 meter asteroid will be whizzing by on Sept 7th at just 0.1 ld (lunar distance, 1 LD = 384,000KM.)
Busy night as well for fireballs (asteroids skipping off the planet's atmosphere) with over 300 last night.
"FILAMENT ERUPTION, EARTH-DIRECTED: On Sept. 2nd, an enormous filament of dark plasma, which had been snaking across the face of the sun for days, became unstable and erupted. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the event (movies: #1, #2). A CME emerging from the blast site appears to have an Earth-directed component"
2014 RC a 21 meter asteroid will be whizzing by on Sept 7th at just 0.1 ld (lunar distance, 1 LD = 384,000KM.)
Busy night as well for fireballs (asteroids skipping off the planet's atmosphere) with over 300 last night.