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To: InterceptPoint

Oh, and an unsnarky note: Jupiter’s magnetic field has 20,000 times the energy of Earth’s and is stronger than the Sun’s. Too tired to dig up the papers on the interactions, but it’s pretty easy to Google that Jupiter’s magnetic field affects pretty much the entire solar system - and the things in it.


210 posted on 06/02/2013 8:40:28 PM PDT by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: piytar

OK. I get it. You actually want me to do the work. Alas, I foolishly thought my witty posts would lure you into doing the work for me.

Google is your friend. And apparently it’s mine too.


213 posted on 06/02/2013 8:45:22 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (If I had a tag line this is where you would find it)
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To: piytar

Your numbers aside, the Earths mag field locally displaces both the suns and any other minor fields in our solar system. That’s why mag models like IGRF are good out to a few hundred miles off Earth surface, but beyond that more complex models are required to account for the magnetopause. Perhaps you should not trust Google for everything.


228 posted on 06/02/2013 9:59:58 PM PDT by Magnum44 (I have had just about enough)
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To: piytar

How is the magnetic field of Jupiter stronger than the sun’s?


235 posted on 06/02/2013 11:35:03 PM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a gamer not because I choose to have no life, but because I choose to have many.)
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