zure Erinnerung: 14.7.2000 the Bastille Day Event

Geschrieben von franz_liszt am 15. Juli 2004 09:58:01:

Als Antwort auf: Vulkane, Sonne, Naturphänomene (15.7.04) (o.T.) geschrieben von franz_liszt am 15. Juli 2004 09:39:14:

July 14, 2000 -- This morning NOAA satellites and the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) recorded one of the most powerful solar flares of the current solar cycle. Space weather forecasters had been predicting for days that an intense flare might erupt from the large sunspot group 9077, and today one did.

"Energetic protons from the flare arrived at Earth about 15 minutes after the eruption," says Gary Heckman, a space weather forecaster at the NOAA Space Environment Center. "This triggered a category S3 radiation storm."

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• http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast14jul_2m.htm

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