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reddog1

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OK, I'm talking out my butt now, but that's hard to take. A piece of dirty ice 30 ft wide crashes into the Sun and makes a CME of large proportions? It strikes me that such a missle would never even make it close to the surface of the Sun.

What am I missing here? There, I left myself wide open.
 

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Sunspot AR1861 is pointing directly at Earth and crackling with C-class solar flares. Bigger eruptions could be in the offing. The sunspot has a 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field that could erupt at any time. NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of M-class flares and a 15% chance of X-flares on Oct. 12th..
 

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