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What's the buzz about? CME aimed towards Earth?

A buzz started to develop in the space weather community about a possible earth-directed coronal mass ejection. We took a look at the event and weren't impressed but considering it is solar minimum and there hasn't been much to get excited about, we do a short analysis anyway.

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