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Incoming Coronal Mass Ejection == Pretty Aurora

Posted by timothy on from the too-cloudy-in-san-antonio dept.

Bill Kendrick writes: "SpaceWeather.com reports that a recent coronal mass ejection on the sun (photo) will be hitting the earth tonight and tomorrow night, causing midnight auroras in northerly points. The moon being a crescent will help, too. Check the skys around midnight, wherever you are."

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  1. Updating the Excuse chart for today by EvilBastard · · Score: 2, Interesting
    OK, so todays Excuse will be Solar Flares.

    Much better then "System backup on the weekend is running longer then we expected and some systems will be down"

    I actually liked this comment from further down

    CLOSE ENCOUNTER: On March 8, 2002, a 70-meter wide asteroid glided by Earth only 1.2 times more distant than the Moon. Named 2002 EM7, the space rock approached our planet from the direction of the Sun and was discovered by MIT's LINEAR search program four days after the flyby. Recent observations suggest that the asteroid won't come so close again for at least 100 years.

    Try to place yourself between the sun and the enemy. This puts the glare of the sun in the enemy's eyes and makes it difficult to see you and impossible for him to shoot with any accuracy.

    Oswald Boelcke, 1916