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Old 06-30-2018, 10:00 PM   #2190 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aerohead
If Earth intersects the path of a CME it's all over.They do leave the sun on a radial trajectory,so we'd need to be directly in the line of fire.
The mass ejections spiral out on a ballistic trajectory, but there are also magnetic portals that act like hoses for charged particles.

Confirmed in 2007:
The Electric Sun/Earth Connection Confirmed

Mapped in 2014:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/s...g-portals.html


Each planet's connection point wanders around on the surface of the Sun, sometimes on it's backside.
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