On May 13, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
I don't believe in them. I have seen this happen more than once in
SOHO videos. A coronal mass ejection corresponds with a comet
collision:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/13/stunning-video-comet-
collides-sun/
T
Hi Terry,
It is impossible for me to follow vortex lately due to message
volume, but I noticed this interesting thread name.
Sun impacting asteroids or comets can be expected to cause coronal
mass injection just from their gravitationally induced kinetic
energy. You might be interested in my take on this with regard to
mass extinctions without impact craters:
http://mtaonline.net/~hheffner/Nemesis.pdf
Here are the salient points:
"If the earth fell into the sun it should vaporize fairly fast due to
its kinetic energy and high internal solar density. Using 1.979E30 kg
for mass of sun and 860,000 mi for diameter, or 6.92E8 meters, we get
an escape velocity = sqrt (2Gm/r) = 6.18E5 m/s for the sun. That
gives energy/gram = 0.5*(1 gm)*(v^2)/(1 g) = 1.9E8 J/g, or 190
megajoules per gram, or about 29000 times the heat required to
vaporize the iron. That's a total collision energy of (1.9E8 J/g)
(6E27 g) = 1.14E36 J. The sun's output is only 3.8E26 J/s. The
collision energy is thus 2.9 billion seconds, or about 91 years of
solar heat output. If that kind of energy were radiated even over the
period of a year, due to some earth sized body hitting the sun, the
earth would be a very crispy critter."
"This shows why a Nemesis cloud need not produce earth impacts to
produce major extinctions. A sufficient tonnage of solar impacts
would be plenty good enough. They should be capable of generating
large solar flares and thus, if nothing else, momentarily greatly
increasing the solar radiating area."
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
