M9.0 Occulted Solar Flare - Oct 20, 2012

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M9.0 CLASS SOLAR FLARE !!
A powerful M9.0 class solar flare was reported around a new active region not yet rotated onto the earth-facing side of the solar disk at 18:14 UTC Oct 20th. Old sunspot 1579 will be renumbered once it rotates the south eastern limb. A large CME was associated with this blast but does not have an earth bound component.