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X1.7 solar flare on 2003-06-09

ClassX1.7NOAA report

Peak21:392003-06-09 UTC

Duration12 min

Peak flux1.7e-04W/m²

Comparison	Value
Rank among X flares (1975 – Jun 2017)	241 / 491
Rank in year	9 / 1496
Other M/X flares that day	2
M/X flares that month	45
Solar cycle	Cycle 23
Active region	AR 10375 (81 flares)

Compared with the strongest flares of 2003

X28.0 11-04X28.0

X17.2 10-28X17.2

X10.0 10-29X10.0

X8.3 11-02X8.3

X5.4 10-23X5.4

X3.9 11-03X3.9

X3.6 05-28X3.6

X2.7 11-03X2.7

X1.7 06-09X1.7

X1.6 06-11X1.6

X1.5 03-17X1.5

X1.5 03-18X1.5

Other M/X flares that day

Date	Begin	Peak	Min	Class	Location	Region
	11:21	11:28	12	M4.7	N11W29	10375
	22:19	22:31	23	M1.4	–	10375

All times UTC. Until June 2017 classes are NOAA's reports of the time (GOES-15 and earlier included a 0.7 scaling factor); later classes come from calibrated GOES-16/18 data, so the same flare reads about 1.4× larger. Do not compare the two periods directly.

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A X1.7 flare that began 2003-06-09 21:31 UTC; No. 9 of 1,496 C-class-or-larger flares in 2003.