[meteorite-list] A Meteor impacted the Sun?

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:52:11 -0600
Message-ID: <4DEEE3DB.7080001_at_alumni.caltech.edu>

Maybe if the asteroid was several times the size of Jupiter!

Seriously, there's no evidence that comets or asteroids produce any sort
of eruptions like this. The energies involved in such collisions are
minuscule compared with the eruption energies. And that's assuming any
collision with the photosphere even occurs- most objects would be
expected to melt and evaporate away before reaching that far.

There is a remote possibility that comet impacts might rarely trigger
eruptions through some unexplained, indirect mechanism (the eruptions
themselves are driven by magnetic fields). But don't look for "splashes".

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 6/7/2011 7:53 PM, Count Deiro wrote:
> The very large and unique ejection of relatively cool matter off the surface of the sun today and its falling back to the surface sure looks as I would imagine an asteroid impact to appear. Think the solar guys are playing straight with us?
>
> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=199_1307490323
>
> Best to all,
>
> Count deiro
Received on Tue 07 Jun 2011 10:52:11 PM PDT