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And part II of the Solar, Space & Geomagnetic Weather series has gone up on Sarah Hoyt's According to Hoyt blog, right here:
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2016/08/26/15490/
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5 comments:
Okay, I got a question over on According To Hoyt, and for some reason, WordPress is choking on the numbers in my answer, so I am going to post here and link it over there.
Donald Campbell's question was:
"What is the sense of ‘speed’ between solar wind, flares and CMEs? Light is 8 1/3 minutes, and CMEs being a plasma are certainly slower. Are flares speed of light?"
My answer is:
Solar flares pretty much effect us via x-rays, so yes, speed of light.
Which puts speeds at:
Solar flares: 300,000,000m/s (300,000km/s) (671,000,000mph)
Solar wind: 400,000-750,000m/s (400-750km/s) (895,000-1,680,000mph)
CMEs: 20,000-3,200,000m/s (20-3,200km/s) (45,000-7,158,000mph)
The reason for the huge variation on CME speeds is because, if a CME has been through very recently, it will have cleared out the interplanetary medium, resulting in highly-decreased resistance, and the subsequent CME will not be slowed down. (Think of it as interplanetary terminal velocity. If the "atmosphere" isn't there because it's been swept aside, the falling object will go much faster.) This is, in fact, what happened during the Carrington event: two very large CMEs were emitted within a couple days of each other, and the second one blasted through and slammed into Earth before the effects of the first even had time to completely die down.
Stephanie, Thanks! I could work with the text numbers, but somehow 0s and ,s are much easier to compare.
You're welcome, Donald! I'm sorry I couldn't figure out how to post it over on the WordPress site.
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