“The reason it’s dark is that whole chunk of the sun basically ripped off, blew out and is coming our way at about two million miles an hour,” said Powell. Well, that doesn’t sound good. Powell explained that this phenomenon happens frequently, but we don’t often see something this large. He said that when the chunk of the sun hits Earth, it would cause auroras, and would wiggle the magnetic field. The major concern would be potential disruptions to GPS signals and interference with communication satellites and power lines. Read more: foxnewsinsider/2013/07/30/chunk-sun-headed-toward-earth-2-million-miles-hour#ixzz2aYsr2dVe
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:12:28 +0000
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