On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Horace Heffner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sun impacting asteroids or comets can be expected to cause coronal mass > injection just from their gravitationally induced kinetic energy.
Good to hear from you, Horace. Indeed, your explanation is a possibility; however, I'm not sure we see the same reaction with asteroids. Really, there is no way to be sure when an asteroid collides with the sun from the SOHO data alone. They are not as obvious as comets. You could be right and all CMEs might result from an external mass collision with Sol. However, I tend toward Spaandonk's explanation, ie the hydrogen from the comet's water is reacting with the corona. One thing is sure, fizzix is fun! T
