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(meteorobs) OT: Fw: AstroAlert: Updated Auroral Activity Bulletin - 08 June

Just to let you all know what happening an updated alert.. we may not get
a good display..

Mike
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>                             A s t r o  A l e r t
>                               Sun-Earth Alert
>
>                          Solar Terrestrial Dispatch
>                            http://www.spacew.com
>
>                      Updated: 21:45 UTC, 08 June 2000
>
>                    * Updated Auroral Activity Bulletin *
>
>
>     The coronal mass ejection disturbance that impacted the Earth shortly
>after 09:00 UTC on 08 June contained several periods of significantly
>unstable solar wind conditions that prompted increases in auroral activity.
>The GOES-8 spacecraft also crossed the magnetopause boundary between
>approximately 15:09 and 16:06 UTC today, which attests to the forces that
>have been applied to the Earth's magnetosphere.
>
>     Unfortunately, most of the auroral activity that has occurred would
>have only been visible to individuals located in low population regions of
the
>northern Pacific and northeastern Russia. We have not yet received any
>reports of activity from other locations of the world, and conditions are
not
>looking particularly favorable either. But we are hoping for at least some
>isolated observations over North America this evening.
>
>     The magnetic fields imbedded within the disturbance are gradually
>becoming less capable of generating auroral storm activity. The projection
is
>for this to continue, at least until the next disturbance associated with
the
>most recent X-class flare impacts the Earth on the 10th at which time
renewed
>activity may be observed.
>
>     There is a distinct possibility for periods of localized auroral
>substorming that may be intense enough to observe from many middle latitude
>locations. However, without a change in the pattern we are currently seeing
>in the solar wind, auroral activity won't be as big and bright as we had
>originally hoped it might be. This should not preclude an attempt to
>get out and see if anything can be observed (or photographed).
>
>     The next best opportunity will be on 10 June.
>
>
>**  End of Update  **
>

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