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Old 16-April-2002, 06:28 PM
SiriMurthy SiriMurthy is offline
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On 2002-04-16 12:56, ToSeek wrote:
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On 2002-04-16 12:45, SiriMurthy wrote:
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So, is CME the same as solar wind?
I think it's fair to say that the material in a CME becomes part of the solar wind. Meanwhile, I'm trying to get a number on how massive a CME really is. So far I've gotten three contradictory figures for the high end:

10^11 kg - http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~bfite/Spac_project.htm
10^13 kg - http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/lin....html&edu=high
10^14-10^17 kg - http://edmall.gsfc.nasa.gov/inv99Pro....abstract.html

These are big numbers, but then CMEs don't happen that often.
I don't understand. According to our BA's page on Mass Loss the Sun has a total mass of 2 x 10<sup>30</sup> Kilograms. The links above say that the CME is (perhaps) in the order of 10<sup>11</sup> to 10<sup>17</sup> Kilograms???!! [img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

(I have just taken the minimum and the maximum values from the above links.)
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