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Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light

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Dec 18, 2009, 2:12:28 PM12/18/09
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On the topic of dreams; Scenes almost like out of a dream.
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"Our jaws dropped when we saw the movies for the first time," says space scientist Larry Lyons of UCLA, a leading member of the
team that made the discovery. "These outbursts are telling us something very fundamental about the nature of auroras."
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/17dec_whenaurorascollide.htm


http://www.spaceweather.com/
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"It sounded like those loud grain haulers that drive by, but about five times louder," reports Laurie Riley, who lives near the
epicenter. "The whole house shook. My kids came running down stairs � they were scared. It even moved my car, [which was parked
outside on icy ground]."

And then the really curious thing happened.

Minutes after the quake, around 9 pm CST, lightning-like flashes lit up the skies around the area of the quake. Telephones in
police departments and TV stations rang with reports of bright lights, loud rumbles and shaking ground. Sky watchers, not only in
southeastern Nebraska, but also in neighboring Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas, saw a "bright fireball" with "green streamers" moving
from northwest to southeast
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