Today, I found the overall speed of the September 2, 2012
coronal mass ejection! It was a little far off from the recorded speed on the
SOHO website, but Dr. Dube said that was to be expected. Hopefully I wasn't too far off! I still have to calculate the time that it took
for that CME to reach Earth though, but that should be easy! I also found another CME today that I will
begin to calculate, and it happened only a day later, on September 3, 2012. There seems to be a lot of CMEs during
September, so I wonder if that was because it was during the solar maximum? Since there is only data from the STEREO-A
satellite and the SOHO satellite for the September 3 CME, I only had to make
two Height vs. Time graphs which took up most of my morning/afternoon. Tomorrow I am probably going to just finish up
the calculations for the September 3 CME and try to look for a third CME to
continue researching. The process is the
same for each CME, so I should become more efficient with my calculations as
the summer goes on, and hopefully I can get enough data to begin looking for
patterns.
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