[meteorite-list] Solar flares (ot) ? or are ions meteorites?
From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:35:05 -0600 Message-ID: <4F626E99.4000907_at_alumni.caltech.edu> But in terms of absolute energy reaching the Earth, all of the sources are very small. Chris ******************************* Chris L Peterson Cloudbait Observatory http://www.cloudbait.com On 3/15/2012 2:07 PM, Sterling K. Webb wrote: > Hi, List, > > On the relative strength of solar flares, take a look at: > http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120315.html > > In the first photo, you can see that the Vela Pulsar > is (as usual) the brightest gamma ray source in the > Galaxy. In the second photo, the March 7, 2012 flare > from our little Sun outshines it by a factor of almost > 100-fold. > >> From the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. > > > Sterling K. Webb Received on Thu 15 Mar 2012 06:35:05 PM PDT |
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