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Coronal mass ejection arrival

The anticipated coronal mass ejection from a C7.4 solar flare that took place three days ago arrived at the Sun-Earth L1 point around 01:30 UTC this night. This is very close to the predicted impact time. An automated alert was send out by our systems and was posted on Twitter and distributed to many mobile devices as a push notification on the SpaceWeatherLive Android/iOS app.

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