I hope it did not and found some other planet as its target. I could not imagine the implications if it had hit the planet earth.
Oh, didn't you know?
The NASA team found a huge fireball as big as the size of Earth. The called it as Solar Tsunami (surely, they can find such apt names-eh?
).When they spotted the devastating object, it was racing towards earth, somewhere around 93 million miles away.
The calculated its speed, the direction and predicted it would hit the Earth on Tuesday. Nevertheless, today is Wednesday in India. The implications, which I felt, would shake the entire world but the scientists said the solar tsunami would only spark northern and southern lights, whatever they are!
Oh yes, the predicted a disruption in communications as the fireball would burn the satellites on its path.
"It looks like the first eruption was so large that it changed the magnetic fields throughout half the Sun's visible atmosphere and provided the right conditions for the second eruption," said Dr Lucie Green, of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Surrey."
"This means we have a very good chance of seeing major and prolonged effects, such as the northern lights at low latitudes," she added.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20100803/981/tsc-solar-tsunami-from-sun-may-hit-earth_1.html
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