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Article #1883Aurora alert
From: David Palmer
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1989 17:43
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1989 17:43
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For all you Aurora watchers out there, there's a big solar flare going on right now. Yesterday the proton flux was 500 /cm s sr, which is considered a fair-sized flare. Today the flux is ~60,000 /cm s sr, and still rising. Apparently the shuttle astronauts are well sheilded by the magnetosphere, especially since they are in a low-inclination orbit, but the Galileo fields and particles people here are excited, and anxiously waiting for that part of the instrument to be turned on. More as it develops. David Palmer palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu ...rutgers!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer Meanwhile, on eng.string.floss, the waxed vs. unwaxed flamewar continues unabated.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle,sci.astro Subject: Aurora alert Summary: Captain, sensors detect an ion storm approaching! Message-ID: <12309@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: 20 Oct 89 17:43:13 GMT References: <1940@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (David Palmer) Distribution: usa Organization: California Institute of Technology Lines: 20