{"id":2028,"date":"2012-01-21T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2012-01-21T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T20:03:03","slug":"big-blob-of-plasma-from-sun-will-come-near-earth-tomorrow-could-disrupt-magnetic-field-video-embedded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/21\/big-blob-of-plasma-from-sun-will-come-near-earth-tomorrow-could-disrupt-magnetic-field-video-embedded\/","title":{"rendered":"Big blob of plasma from sun will come near Earth tomorrow, could disrupt magnetic field (video embedded)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the Washington Post&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/sun-shoots-a-fastball-at-earth-but-minimal-impact-expected-on-satellites-power-grid\/2012\/01\/20\/gIQA5KiBEQ_story.html?tid=pm_pop\" target=\"_blank\">Sun shoots a fastball at Earth, but minimal impact expected<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A huge sunspot unleashed a blob of charged plasma Thursday that space weather watchers predict will blast past the Earth on Sunday. Satellite operators and power companies are keeping a close eye on the incoming cloud, which could distort the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s magnetic field and disrupt radio communications, especially at higher latitudes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our simulations show potential to pack a good punch to Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s near-space environment,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Antti Pulkkinen of the Space Weather Laboratory at NASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt.<\/p>\n<p>But, he added, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not looking at an extreme event here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The front edge of the burst should arrive Sunday morning [. . .]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m looking at, but this is satellite imager of the sun belching out the plasma blob on Thursday:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" width=\"480px\" height=\"270px\" src=\"http:\/\/specials.washingtonpost.com\/mv\/embed\/?title=NASA%20satellite%20captures%20'solar%20fastball'%20(0%3A09)&#038;stillURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Frf%2Fimage_606w%2F2010-2019%2FWashingtonPost%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2FHealth-Environment-Science%2FVideos%2F01202012-57v%2F01202012-57v.jpg&#038;flvURL=%2Fmedia%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2F01202012-57v.m4v&#038;width=480&#038;height=270&#038;autoStart=0&#038;clickThru=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnational%2Fhealth-science%2Fnasa-satellite-captures-solar-fastball-009%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2FgIQAlUzEEQ_video.html\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The blob is apparently moving at more than 2 million miles per hour.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A huge sunspot unleashed a blob of charged plasma Thursday that space weather watchers predict will blast past the Earth on Sunday. Satellite operators and power companies are keeping a close eye on the incoming cloud, which could distort the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s magnetic field and disrupt radio communications, especially at higher latitudes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/01\/21\/big-blob-of-plasma-from-sun-will-come-near-earth-tomorrow-could-disrupt-magnetic-field-video-embedded\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-wI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}