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    The solar storms of August 1972 were a historically powerful series of solar storms with intense to extreme solar flare, solar particle event, and geomagnetic...
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    electronics. Intense solar storms may also be hazardous to high-latitude, high-altitude aviation and to human spaceflight. Geomagnetic storms are the cause of...
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    and CMEs of the August 1972 solar storms were similar to the Carrington event in size and magnitude, however unlike the 1859 storms, they did not cause...
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    duration after the parent flare erupted than for the great solar storm of 1859. List of solar storms Williams, David R. (July 1, 2013). "Sun Fact Sheet". NASA...
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    by a geomagnetic storm. These include solar energetic particle (SEP) events, geomagnetically induced currents (GIC), ionospheric storms and its disturbances...
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    McMath 11976, produced a historic series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) in August 1972. One CME traveled to Earth in a record low of...
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    A total solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's descending node of the orbit on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, two days past perigee, in parts of North America...
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    Asians with British passports to Britain within 3 months. August 1972 solar storms: A huge solar flare (one of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable...
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    The solar storms of May 2024 were a series of powerful solar storms with extreme solar flares and geomagnetic storm components that occurred from 10–13...
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    1972 January February March April May June July August September October November December The following events occurred in August 1972: "Bug Suspect...
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    surface, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections, disturbs the heliosphere, creating space weather and causing geomagnetic storms. Coronal mass ejections...
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  • produce noise storms are still mysterious. Not all active regions that produce other forms of activity such as flares generate noise storms, and unlike...
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    storm, one of the largest geomagnetic storms disrupted telegraph service and damaged electrical equipment worldwide. The Solar storm of August 1972,...
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    sounding balloons. Pioneer 9 in early August 1972 recorded significant observations of one of the most potent solar storms ever recorded, and the most hazardous...
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    Geomagnetic storms that ignite auroras may occur more often during the months around the equinoxes. It is not well understood, but geomagnetic storms may vary...
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    Administration. Retrieved 8 November 2023. "Small-Body Database Lookup". Solar System Dynamics. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. Retrieved 8 November 2023...
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    Thunderstorm (redirect from Thunder storms)
    development. Such storms are rarely severe and are a result of local atmospheric instability; hence the term "air mass thunderstorm". When such storms have a brief...
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    merging of three white ovals. Jupiter has powerful storms, often accompanied by lightning strikes. The storms are a result of moist convection in the atmosphere...
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    the Sun's own magnetic field are carried outward by the solar wind, producing geomagnetic storms in the Earth's magnetosphere. The heliospheric current...
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    Sunrise (category Solar phenomena)
    horizon in the morning. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. Although the Sun appears to "rise" from the horizon...
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    Minister of the Khmer Republic from March to October, 1972, and of the Kingdom of Cambodia from August to October, 1945; died in a Vietnamese prison, two...
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    century: Solar saros 147: annular solar eclipse of August 4, 2111 Solar saros 148: total solar eclipse of July 4, 2122 Solar saros 149: total solar eclipse...
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    Spring (season) (category Articles with unsourced statements from August 2022)
    (with countries such as Germany, the United States, Canada, and the UK), solar reckoning was traditionally used with the solstices and equinoxes representing...
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  • the solar wind) or a nearby star. Planets having active magnetospheres, like the Earth, are capable of mitigating or blocking the effects of solar radiation...
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  • snow, fog and dust storms. Less common events include natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons and ice storms. Almost all familiar...
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    which both arrived at Mars only weeks later. After the occurrence of dust storms on the planet for several months following its arrival, the orbiter managed...
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    called geomagnetic storms, can occur when a coronal mass ejection erupts above the Sun and sends a shock wave through the Solar System. Such a wave can...
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    Voyager 2 (category Spacecraft escaping the Solar System)
    was the third of five spacecraft to achieve Solar escape velocity, which will allow it to leave the Solar System. It has been sending scientific data...
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    The May 29, 1919, total solar eclipse occurred because the Moon aligned between the Sun and the Earth in which they appeared overlapped to a certain population...
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  • Phaeton (hypothetical planet) (category Solar System)
    hinting to exposure to meteorite storms and its relatively low density compared to the other inner planets. In 1972, Soyuzmultfilm studios produced an...
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