Re: magnetic field lines like these?

["Miguel A. Santos" <msantos@etse.urv.es>]

> Thaks, William, for providing an explanation of the terrestial magnetic 
> dynamo. I will have to think more about it.
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>
> If you have access to "New Solar System" (a compilation of articles, edited
> by Beatty and Chaikin, 1990, third edition) you may find an article written 
> by James A. Van Allen. Page 38 shows "a schematic diagram of the magnetic 
> field of Uranus as observed by Voyager 2". The magnetic axis is at 58.6 
> degrees with respect to the axis of rotation. The two axes cross far away 
> from the center of the planet (the offset is 30% of the radius).
>
> Another "crazy" thing about Uranus is that its rotational axis is nearly 
> parallel (about 10 degrees) with respect to the plane of the orbit. For 
> planets closer to the Sun the rotational axes are nearly perpendicular to 
> orbits.
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>                    Ludwik Kowalski    kowalskiL@alpha.montclair.edu
By the way, is there any correlation between the magnetic fields
among the different planets of the solar system? I guess the sun would
have some influence on them.

M.A.Santos
msantos@etse.urv.es