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It's official ... 486's solar flare and CME was the ...

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:23 pm
by Stormsfury
Strongest of record ... Spaceweather.com reported that the CLASS X28 (on the Richter Scale of Solar Flares) was the largest explosion recorded in our solar system ...

http://www.spaceweather.com/glossary/flareclasses.html

The historic Superflare captured ....
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_11_04/

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:42 pm
by breeze
Definitely amazing photos!

It caused the Japanese to lose two satellites!

Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 5:47 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
From what I heard we lost one or two as well.....

What an amazing year for flares!!

Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2003 1:27 am
by pawlee
excellent links! thank you VERY much for sharing!!! p