Keith’s note: I thought I might be on TV today to talk about the launch of a Chinese space station module or a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. Nope. Instead I was on CTV talking at 4:50 pm EST about the threat of a newly discovered asteroid and on Al Jazeera at 6:10 pm EST talking about threats from solar activity. Its Disaster Tuesday for Keith. Audio links below.
(more…)NASA Tamps Down Massive Solar Flare Impact Hype, PC World “While some of the coverage of the massive Valentine’s Day solar flare made it sound like the world was coming to an end, or darn close to it. NASA’s website this afternoon played another likely more realistic tune: “The particle cloud produced by the Valentine’s Day event appears to be rather weak and is not expected to produce any strong […]
Massive solar storm to hit Earth in 2012 with ‘force of 100m bombs’, ANI, Yahoo India “Astronomers are predicting that a massive solar storm, much bigger in potential than the one that caused spectacular light shows on Earth earlier this month, is to strike our planet in 2012 with a force of 100 million hydrogen bombs. Several US media outlets have reported that NASA was warning the massive flare this […]
