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From: giles@ucf-cs.UUCP (Bruce Giles)
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Subject: Re: Magnetic Pole Drift
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Date: Sun, 17-Jun-84 13:46:28 EDT
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>>  Random thought : What would it be like living in an equatorial area 
>>  where you were at the bottom of an electromagnetic funnel, as the 
>>  north pole is now?

Maybe that is the reason the magnetic poles are always aligned with the
rotational poles!

How strongly does the earth's magnetic field couple with the solar magnetic
field and solar wind?

Would pressure from the solar wind alone be enough to quickly force the
earth's magnetic field to align?


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