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Re: Not to worry . . .

The Earth's magnetosphere will keep us safe.

Solar wind generally travels at 400 km/s, at a density of approx. 10 protons/cc. The atmosphere is far to dense for the Solar wind to suck it all away. That would require a coronal mass ejection (CME) directed at the planet. CMEs' btw, have been raking past Earth ever since before Earth had an atmosphere. The Earth's magnetosphere shunts the bulk of the CME easily aside, with the remainder interacting to create the auroras borealis and australis.

Here Comes the Sun, February 18, 2000.

Dan

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