[South Florida DX Association] X-class Solar Flare

[Bill Marx]

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> Space Weather News for March 10, 2011
> http://spaceweather.com
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> X-CLASS SOLAR FLARE:  March 9th ended with a powerful solar flare.  Less than an hour before midnight (UT), Earth-orbiting satellites detected an X1.5-class explosion from behemoth sunspot 1166.  First-look data suggest that the blast did hurl some material towards earth. 
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