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   ocr: A typical CME con carry more than 101 billion tons ofplasma in- fot the solar system, a mass equal to that of 100,000 battleships. And most importantly, the energy in the bubble of plasma - packs a punch comparable fo that of 100 hurricanes combined. This CME clearly heads off to the right over an 8-hour period in 1996.