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A Carrington event is a massive plasma solar flare – a ring of fire

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                                                            NASA Goddard PhotoSolar flares Solar flares continually erupt from the surface of the sun. These powerful surges of plasma can reach the earths magnetic field.  The number of flares and sunspots fluctuate each year reaching a maximum every approximate eleven years. The Sun was due to reach a solar maximum in its 11 year cycle in 2011 …

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Carrington event which is a massive plasma flare from the sun could hit the earth in the next decade

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Startling paper by Pete Riley on the possibility of  massive solar flare, or Carrington event happening- Key Points Probability of a Carrington event occurring      over next decade is ~12% Space physics datasets often display a      power-law distribution Power-law distribution can be exploited to      predict extreme events Pete Riley Predictive Science,San Diego,California,USA This …

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