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#1 2003-11-05 12:13:09
- Christina
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Re: Northern Lights/Southern Lights
The current solar activity is creating much bigger Aurora than usual, with the sheets of colour visible a lot further south than normal.
Can you see them from where you are?
We've had cloud the last few nights, but tonight I'm hopeful.
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#2 2003-11-06 01:37:07
- Free Spirit
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Re: Northern Lights/Southern Lights
I just went outside to see if I could see any aurora, but all I saw were thick clouds. How far south are you? I'm at roughly 40 degrees latitude, probably too far South. 
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#3 2003-11-06 05:17:11
- Byron
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Re: Northern Lights/Southern Lights
We'd have to get the mother of all flares to see the auroras down here....I'm at 26 degrees latitude
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#4 2005-03-08 11:09:03
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Aurora Research Rocket Crashes in Alaska
A rocket launched to collect information on the aurora's appearance and movement flew for five minutes before crashing in the mountains north of Fairbanks.
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#5 2005-03-08 14:13:14
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More on the rocket bound for places high above Earth to study the aurora borealis. It failed shortly after launch Sunday and crashed at 180 mph into the White Mountains National Recreation Area, north of Fairbanks.
Rocket crashes in Interior MALFUNCTION: Black Brant XII, owned by NASA, spirals into remote area.
Lynch estimated the rocket and instrumentation aboard it were worth between $1 million and $5 million.
The Poker Flat range, about 30 miles north of Fairbanks, is under contract to NASA. It has launched more than 2,000 rockets since it opened in 1969. This was its first launch of 2005. Two more launches are scheduled this year; both are aurora experiments supervised by Lynch.
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