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January 24, 2012 01:01 pm PST
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What happens when a Coronal Mass Ejection hits the Earth?
At approximately 11:00 am Eastern time (15 minutes from now as I type this), the Earth will come into contact with the largest Coronal Mass Ejection since 2005—a huge burst of charged particles and magnetic fields that exploded off the surface of the sun Sunday night. Scientists have been tracking it as it headed our [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/JCfEhFI8R1M/what-happens-when-a-coronal-ma.html
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