Word: gurman
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...written statements are dated October 21, 1992, December 11, 1992, September 9, 1993 and January 19, 1994, and were filed or dictated by, respectively, Laura Schleussner, Marketa Wills, Tilly Gurman and Amy Sanford...
What's most surprising, observes Joe Gurman, a space physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is that all this is occurring despite the fact that we're currently in a solar minimum--the interval of relative calm that reigns between the end of one 11-year sunspot cycle and the beginning of another. Sunspots always signal more violent solar activity than average. But, says Gurman: "We now know that there's no such thing as a quiet...
...This gas is so hot (two million degrees Fahrenheit) that atoms of hydrogen and helium are homogenized into a dilute plasma, composed mainly of negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons. Yet the solar wind is a gossamer thing, far less substantial than a whisper. "What you have," marvels Gurman, "is a million tons of matter moving at a million miles per hour. But its density is so low that essentially you're dealing with the physics of a vacuum...