[meteorite-list] Solar flares (ot) ? or are ions meteorites?

[Chris Peterson]

But in terms of absolute energy reaching the Earth, all of the sources 
are very small.

Chris

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

On 3/15/2012 2:07 PM, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
> Hi, List,
>
> On the relative strength of solar flares, take a look at:
> http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120315.html
>
> In the first photo, you can see that the Vela Pulsar
> is (as usual) the brightest gamma ray source in the
> Galaxy. In the second photo, the March 7, 2012 flare
> from our little Sun outshines it by a factor of almost
> 100-fold.
>
>> From the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb