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Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection

Subject: Cartwheel Coronal Mass Ejection
From: NASA Science News <snglist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:13:14 -0500

NASA Science News for May 27, 2008

Imagine a billion-ton cloud of gas launching itself off the surface of the sun and then ... doing a cartwheel. That's exactly what happened on April 9, 2008, when a coronal mass ejection or "CME" pirouetted over the sun's limb in full view of an international fleet of spacecraft. The cartwheel set off a chain of events that amazed even veteran solar physicists.

FULL STORY at

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/27may_cartwheelcme.htm?list1052465

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