[meteorite-list] A Meteor impacted the Sun?

[Chris Peterson]

Maybe if the asteroid was several times the size of Jupiter!

Seriously, there's no evidence that comets or asteroids produce any sort 
of eruptions like this. The energies involved in such collisions are 
minuscule compared with the eruption energies. And that's assuming any 
collision with the photosphere even occurs- most objects would be 
expected to melt and evaporate away before reaching that far.

There is a remote possibility that comet impacts might rarely trigger 
eruptions through some unexplained, indirect mechanism (the eruptions 
themselves are driven by magnetic fields). But don't look for "splashes".

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 6/7/2011 7:53 PM, Count Deiro wrote:
> The very large and unique ejection of relatively cool matter off the surface of the sun today and its falling back to the surface sure looks as I would imagine an asteroid impact to appear. Think the solar guys are playing straight with us?
>
> http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=199_1307490323
>
> Best to all,
>
> Count deiro