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Solar System Science Fair Project Ideas (continued)

Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Topics: Great Science Fair Project Ideas

Archive of Solar Storms - Assembled by Dr. Sten Odenwald and high school student, Mr. Ethan Rosenthal for the years 1996-2003, this is an Excel spreadsheet (660 kby) that gives data for all significant solar and geophysical storms that have occurred during most of the past sunspot cycle.

Space Weather Alerts - NOAA's Space Weather Center has extensive online archives of past and current solar flare and other space weather condition reports.

Solar Proton Events - These are showers of energetic particles produced by coronal mass ejections that reach Earth from 1976 to 2005.

Gamma Ray Flare Catalog - Assembled by the Gamma Ray Observatory between 1991 - 2000.

Coronal Mass Ejections Catalog - Produced by SOHO scientist Chris St. Cyr with the LASCO instrument for the years 1998 - 2005.

Tables of Sunspot Numbers - From 165 BC to the present day.

Big Bear Solar Observatory - Click on 'Data' and 'Activity Reports' on left-hand navigation bar to get archives of reports since 1998 describing flares and solar magnetic field configurations.

Solar-Terrestrial Activity Report- Daily tracking of solar activity and how Earth responds to flares and coronal mass ejections.

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