From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Paul@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: New Application for Space
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2102
Posted: Fri Jul 16 11:16:30 1982
Received: Sat Jul 17 02:17:11 1982

It occurs to me that experiments on magnetic monopoles may only be possible
in 0-g, if current theories are correct.  They predict monopoles with
very large masses (10^16 Gev) and unit magnetic charge.  The forces of
an atom on a monopole will be much smaller than the force of gravity,
so monopoles will fall out of any matter containing them.  Perhaps we
can find monopoles in the centers of asteroids?
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