A CME EXPANDING IN BOTH THE RADIAL AND LATERAL DIRECTIONS

The angular expansion of the 5 May 1980 event is large in the outer loop,but insignificant in the inner loop; the expansion made the outer front flattering,and the streamer moving and bending. In comparison with the event in successionoccurring in the same solar region on the next day, the characteristics of theradial motion are different in the time domain, but similar in the space domain.Physical implications of above features are discussed in the paper.