SMM C/P CME Event

3 March 1988 --- Day of Year (DOY): 063

Event Information

Event Description

Huge, broad loop/cavities(?) with two structured interior (prominence) loops/cavities appearing nearly simultaneously at widely different locations. Deflections north of event. Southern structured loop/cavity is surrounded by fuzzy, concentric loops/cavities. Solar north is toward the upper left as indicated by the arrow drawn into the occulting disk; the dotted circle marks the solar photosphere.

Event Properties

Start/Stop Times in SMM Coronagraph Field of View: March 03 <22:12 to March 04 03:19
Central Position Angle: 156 degrees
Width (in degrees): 159 degrees
Speed (in km/sec): 232 <--- Broad Loop
Speed (in km/sec): 259 <--- Inner Eastern Loop (prominence)

Image List:

March 03, 1988: 22:10 UT March 03, 1988: Subtraction image of 22:10 UT

March 03, 1988: 22:35 UT March 03, 1988: 22:43 UT

March 03, 1988: 23:36 UT

SMM Mass Ejection Catalogue:

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Andrew L. Stanger ( stanger@ucar.edu)
Last revised: 29 August 2000