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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Yes nuclei up to the size of iron usually and traveling some where around 99% the speed of light.
Which is nothing compared to the sums particles which normally move at around 1 to 2 million miles per hour and up to 7 million miles per hour during big solar storms.
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Yes,exactly.The physicists will just call it 'relativistic velocities'.
There's over 150 different molecules that have been identified rushing around out there.
Yes,the storms are amazing.Some of it will move slower than other parts,the fast material will overtake it,causing shock-waves,reverberations,and even counter-shocks which travel back to the Sun.
Our magnetosphere protects us from most of it.
When it does strike the atmosphere,it generates secondary particles.They've got detectors looking at it all the time.A few times a century,extremely-energetic stuff comes in.
It's cool stuff!