%0 Journal Article
%T Commentary on the Liquid Metallic Hydrogen Model of the Sun II. Insight Relative to Coronal Rain and Splashdown Events
%A Robitaille P.-M.
%J Progress in Physics
%D 2013
%I HEXIS (Arizona)
%X Coronal rain represents blobs of solar material with a width of กซ300 km and a length of กซ700 km which are falling from the active region of the corona towards the solar surface along loop-like paths. Conversely, coronal showers are comprised of much larger bulks of matter, or clumps of solar rain. Beyond coronal rain and showers, the expulsion of solar matter from the surface, whether through  ares, prominences, or coronal mass ejections, can result in massive disruptions which have been observed to rise far into the corona, return towards the Sun, and splashdown onto the photosphere. The existence of coronal rain and the splashdown of mass ejections onto the solar surface constitute the twenty-third and twenty-fourth lines of evidence that the Sun is condensed matter.
%K Coronal rain
%K corona
%K solar matter
%K photosphere
%U http://www.ptep-online.com/index_files/2013/PP-33-L5.PDF