Screw Comets, Lets Get WIped Out By a Giant Plasma Cloud

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MOSCOW, June 3. /TASS/. Information about a large cloud of plasma moving towards the Earth, ejected by the Sun, is unreliable. This is reported on the website Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN).

"The reason is that, as already mentioned, it is important not only the fact of the release, but also its direction. And the ejection was directed very clearly past the Earth. It had only a marginal chance of snagging our planet, and then with a very low probability. The same edge touches can cause only minor field disturbances, but not storms, and even large ones worth mentioning. Statements about the uniqueness and power of the ejection remain entirely on the conscience of the SpaceWeather website or the Russian publications that reprinted this message, since they have nothing to do with reality," the report says.

It is specified that the probability of touching the Earth and weak short-term field disturbances is approximately 10%, and the probability of noticeable magnetic storms is less than 1%.
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