On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:51 AM, ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Just a thought experiment I had since we are near a solar maxima.
>
> If the average CME is a billion tons and three per day occur on average
> somewhere on the surface during maxima, moving between 30 and 3000
> miles/second, how come we are not struck by Mt Everest (est. weight a
> billion tons as a cone) more often?  Where is all that "stuff" going?

Because the earth represents about 1.4 x 10^-11% of the sphere (read
target) at our orbital radius?

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