Coronal mass ejection from monster sunspot AR 1476 due May 14

Take off work Monday and watch the fireworks......

UPDATE MAY 12, 2012 1:15 P.M. CDT (18:15 UTC) Spaceweather.com is reporting that a coronal mass ejection, or CME, began racing away from the sun’s surface yesterday evening, according to U.S. clocks (May 11 at 6:54 p.m. CDT or 23:54 UTC). Moving at some 1,000 kilometers per second (600 miles per second), the fast-moving cloud of high energy solar particles will arrive in Earth’s vicinity on May 14 around 9:30 a.m. CDT (14:30 UTC).

http://earthsky.org/space/huge-sunspot-ar1476-turned-our-way-might-...

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the webpage is has some great images and a real time tracker. thanks for posting this, I had not heard of it. 

Excellent article.  A friend's dog was recently treated at A&M's Vet School and is doing very well...!

sesport, yes you have to take off work.  Call in and tell them the sky is falling and you're not going to get hit in the head....

My old house is covered in 5 layers of lead paint. Plus i have several tin-foil hats and will stay inside for a couple of days.  Should be OK...?

Yes, not to worry but..............the earth has had many "hits" and this one is brushing by us.  A big enough direct hit could take all of us back to pre-electrical days and guessing about the weather.  If that happens, it would take years to rebuild our electrical systems.

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