SMM C/P CME Event
5 October 1989 --- Day of Year (DOY): 278
Event Description
Loop/cavity and beautiful, coiled, highly structured, inner (prominence) loops/cavities superposed on streamer. Streamer is disrupted. Deflections. 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:
October 05 17:14 to 21:24
Central Position Angle: 289 degrees
Width (in degrees): 042 degrees
Speed (in km/sec): 352 <--- Outer Loop
Speed (in km/sec): 1007 <--- Outer Cavity
Speed (in km/sec): 543 <--- Inner Loop (prominence)
Image List:
October 05, 1989: 17:31 UT
October 05, 1989: 18:21 UT
October 05, 1989: 18:46 UT
October 05, 1989: 19:02 UT
October 05, 1989: 21:49 UT
October 05, 1989: Composite Image
Detailed information on all SMM mass ejections is available in the SMM Catalogue of Coronal Mass Ejections