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Dr David Mills (dtl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:52:50 JST Dr David Mills

Anyone fancy doing a back of the envelope calculation for how many particles from the sun (delivered by the solar flare) you're breathing in with each lungful. Particles that were on the sun last week. #maths #physics

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  Sunanda (theorem_poem@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 23:52:50 JST Sunanda
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  @Dtl Hmm, if we start here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2024_solar_storms
  We have had one X class and some M class flares.
  And this article here just says "billions of tons of material" without going much into specifics. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/phenomena/coronal-mass-ejections
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    May 2024 solar storms
    
    The solar storms of May 2024 are a series of powerful solar storms with intense to extreme solar flare and geomagnetic storm components that have been ongoing since 10 May 2024 during solar cycle 25. The geomagnetic storm was the most powerful to affect Earth since 2003, and produced aurorae at far lower latitudes than usual in both northern and southern hemispheres. Solar flares and coronal mass ejections On 8 May 2024, a solar active region which had been assigned the NOAA region number 3664 produced an X1.0-class and multiple M-class solar flares and launched several coronal mass ejections (CMEs) toward Earth. On 9 May, the active region produced an X2.25- and X1.12-class flare each associated with a full-halo CME. On 10 May, the region produced an X3.98-class flare, and on 11 May at 01:23 UTC it produced another X-class flare of magnitude 5.4–5.7 with another asymmetrical full-halo CME. The region also caused an S1 solar radiation storm with spikes reaching S2. Geomagnetic storm Three CMEs from 8 May reached...
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  Sunanda (theorem_poem@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 00:58:19 JST Sunanda
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  @goatsarah the hydrogen ions (protons) and electrons would likely be neutralized in the atmosphere. But the xrays would reach us.
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