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submitted 11 months ago by CheapFrottage to c/[email protected]

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Spoiler - though they were both G5 storms, they weren’t really that comparable.

Also, big as the Carrington Event was, it’s likely it was absolutely dwarfed by one about a millennium ago, the Miyake Event

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

As with any fossils, through the study of radioactive isotopes such as C-14.