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New X2 Solar Flare & Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid Flyby
Newly-discovered asteroid 2012 BX34 is flying past Earth today only 77,000 km (0.2 lunar distances) away. There is no danger of a collision with the 14-meter wide space rock.
X2 Solar Flare
Departing sunspot 1402 unleashed an X2-class solar flare today, Jan. 27th, at 18:37 UT. Sunspot 1402 is rotating onto the far side of the sun, so the blast site was not facing Earth. Nevertheless, energetic protons accelerated by the blast are now surrounding our planet, and an intensifying S1-class radiation storm is in progress.
Full Stories: http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?month=01&day=27&year=2012&view=view
Categories: Asteroids, Astronomy, CME (Coronal Mass Ejections), Earth, NEO's (Near Earth Objects), Solar System, Sun
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