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© SOHO / NASA / ESA
© SOHO / NASA / ESA
MOSCOW, Sept. 30 – RIA Novosti. Giant “bundle” of plasma ejected by the sun on Monday night, flies to Earth, and on Wednesday evening may cause our planet magnetic storm of moderate strength, RIA News Director of the space weather forecasts Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation (Troitsk) Sergei Gaydash.
“Yesterday at 20.00 GMT (00.00 MSK on Monday) on the Sun was a unique event – a huge gap fibers are half the size of the solar disk. This is a colossal bundle plasma confined by a spiral magnetic field. This” burn “, like a large caterpillar, contains hundreds of millions of tons of solar material. He flew into interplanetary space and can touch the earth, “- said Gaydash.
According to him, within ten minutes after the “separation” in the vicinity of the earth began the “proton enhancement” – the growth of the concentration of protons in the near-Earth space. Appropriate warnings have been sent to all the services involved in satellite systems and communications, said the official.
“cloud of plasma touches the Earth along its edge. As expected, around the second half of the day on October 2 we can expect a moderate magnetic storm Kp index of geomagnetic disturbances can rise to a value of 6″ – said Gaydash.
See also : how the Earth appeared double, why fish and walnuts are not “food for thought”, under any circumstances, spouses often hit each other, and more – in the latest issue of the weekly column “Science Monday” on ria.ru.
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