Five Hundred Nuggets
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Introduction
We've reached a milestone in SolarNuggets with this Nugget No. 500! The SolarNuggets began in 2005 with RHESSI Nugget No. 1, a description of the pioneering RHESSI hard X-ray and gamma-ray spectroscopy. A few of the earlier Nuggets have been lost, or no longer show their images properly. This just reminds us that digital archives have shelf lives, and may wither with time much as a First Dynasty [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Dynasty_of_Egypt papyrus might. But most of them are there and many still have interesting messages; we're probably complete as far back as Eduard Kontar's Dentist Mirror classic.
Nugget history =
These Nuggets arose from the Yohkoh Nuggets which themselves began as simple tohban reports in which observers report on remarkable operations in near-real-time. The most memorable Yohkoh Nugget, among many, might have been the triple jet item, a truly remarkable thing that has never been formally published, possibly because it shows actually inexplicable observations. The Yohkoh tohban reports morphed into the more informative Yohkoh Nuggets, which ran from 1997 to 2002; an AGU poster from 2002 describing them is here as a .pdf file (authors Hudson, McKenzie, and Nitta, the triumvirate supervising Yohkoh Nugget publication in those long-ago days.
Nugget future
There are now many Nugget series, plus similar science-news sequences:
UKSP Nuggets HMI Nuggets CESRA Nuggets Solar Orbiter Science Nuggets ...
As long as new ideas and discoveries appear, we must make them available worldwide!