From: "Jacques van Oene" Newsgroups: sci.space.news Subject: Space Weather News for May 29, 2003 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:51:51 +0200 Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA Approved: sci-space-news@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Message-ID: <00a701c329f0$6ec80d00$d1cd5dd5@chello.nl> charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov 1054659078 4261 137.78.16.91 (3 Jun 2003 16:51:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@newsfeed.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 2003 16:51:18 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Originator: daemon@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov Xref: newsread1.funet.fi sci.space.news:13624 Space Weather News for May 29, 2003 http://www.spaceweather.com Two solar coronal mass ejections swept past Earth today, triggering strong and ongoing geomagnetic storms. Because of the timing of the impacts, the best places to see auroras so far have been New Zealand and southern parts of Australia. Sky watchers elsewhere should be alert for auroras after local nightfall. Even mid-latitude observers might spot some Northern and Southern Lights. Because the moon is nearly-new, lunar glare will not interfere with faint auroras. Another coronal mass ejection is likely en route to Earth. If so it would arrive on Friday, May 30th, and extend the ongoing geomagnetic activity. Visit spaceweather.com for updates. ---- Jacques :-) Editor: www.spacepatches.info ------------------------------------------------------