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To: RC51

New Horizons should have some instrumentation to answer that about the mag field. I would suspect Pluto does have a mag field while the atmosphere is in the gaseous phase.


24 posted on 05/14/2007 11:17:05 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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To: RightWhale

New Horizons is not flying a magnetometer. The two particle instruments are SWAP (Solar Wind Around Pluto) and PEPSSI (Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation). However, the particle instruments would detect a magnetoshock or magnetotail, as they are currently doing at Jupiter.


68 posted on 05/16/2007 3:17:56 PM PDT by MikeD (We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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