Re: Aurora Forecast?

From: Sam Wormley (swormley1_at_mchsi.com)
Date: 01/19/05


Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:08:07 GMT

Caliban wrote:
> It's been a bit of a fizzer so far.
>
> How can so much solar activity not cause an aurora? The CMEs did not
> miss us as evidenced by the KP index and POES plots. So what went wrong.

   Size of CMB?
   Magnetic fields?
   Other factors?



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