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Last Post 9/26/2005 11:08 AM by Pat Reiff

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9/26/2005 8:22 AM
brittany m how did these become known as solar storm?

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9/26/2005 11:08 AM
Originally they were known as auroral storms, because the major observable was that the aurora got bright and came very far south. But when we realized that the whole earth saw the effects, we changed the name to "geomagnetic storm", which is what most scientists use. We use the term "solar storm" to emphasize that the source of all the disruption is the sun, and that more planets than just Earth can see the effects!