NASA Satellite Sees Solar Hurricane Tear Comet Tail Off

[amzolt]

Would love to read some EU "re-writes" of this NASA article:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stere ... encke.html

[MattEU]

nice find

one of the space cowboys should give a good explanation of what happened. I nearly died of shock at one line, so close then of course they get blown off course by peer reviewed brain CMEs. But they are getting closer...or having to admit certain facts.

Once there, the sun's heat and radiation vaporizes gas and dust from the comet, forming its tail. Comets typically have two tails, one made of dust and a fainter one made of electrically conducting gas, called plasma.

CMEs are large clouds of magnetized gas ejected into space by the sun. They are violent eruptions with masses upwards of a few billion tons traveling anywhere from 100 to 3,000 kilometers per second (62 to 1,864 miles/second). They have been compared to hurricanes because of the widespread disruption they can bring when directed at Earth; CMEs are known to cause geomagnetic storms that can present hazards for satellites, radio communications, and power systems.

[FS3]

Great find!

If you watch the included small movie you will notice first that the field lines "from the sun" are aligned incorrectly.

There's no strict radial field, as you can see, but due to the rotation of the source it should be more like a a spiral (Parker-Spiral).

Anyhow it's notworthy that at the contact with the flare the potential bubble (aka: "Double Layer) around the comet is cut off and the nucleus remains ISOLATED in the obvious "sea of electricity"!

But even before the comet INTERACTS with the field already - as you may recognize by the "distortion" of the (simplified) sun's field before the flare arrives.

Great revelations are ahead!

FS3

[amzolt]

Great find!

If you watch the included small movie you will notice first that the field lines "from the sun" are aligned incorrectly.

There's no strict radial field, as you can see, but due to the rotation of the source it should be more like a a spiral (Parker-Spiral).

Anyhow it's notworthy that at the contact with the flare the potential bubble (aka: "Double Layer) around the comet is cut off and the nucleus remains ISOLATED in the obvious "sea of electricity"!

But even before the comet INTERACTS with the field already - as you may recognize by the "distortion" of the (simplified) sun's field before the flare arrives.

Great revelations are ahead!

FS3

Fascinating...