Accession Number:
AD0757064
Title:
Magnetospheres of the Outer Planets,
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Corporate Author:
CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES PLASMA PHYSICS GROUP
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Report Date:
1972-05-01
Pagination or Media Count:
50.0
Abstract:
Scaling laws for possible outer planet magnetospheres are derived. These suggest that convection and its associated auroral effects will play a relatively smaller role than at Earth, and that there is a possibility that they could have significant radiation belts of energetic trapped particles. Author
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Subject Categories:
- Astrophysics