[CVRC] Huge Solar Blast

[Dick Flanagan]

At 04:19 PM 10/28/2003, Paul Cavnar wrote:
 >One of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded erupted this morning
 >near giant sunspot 486.  The explosion hurled a coronal mass ejection
 >(CME) directly toward Earth.

This is the third most powerful flare EVER recorded and both of the other 
two were directed away from Earth.  This could get interesting.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc@arrl.org