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U.S.A. National Committee Report, Fifteenth URSI General Assembly, Munich, September 1966: Commission 4,Magnetospheric Radio; Progress in Magnetospheric Radio
Author(s) -
Johnson Francis S.,
Bowles K. L.,
Brace L. H.,
Carpenter D. L.,
Cohen R.,
Feier J. A.,
Hanson W. B.,
Helliwell R. A.,
Scarf F. L.,
Smith R. L.,
Sugiura M.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
radio science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1944-799X
pISSN - 0048-6604
DOI - 10.1002/rds19661111363
Subject(s) - magnetosphere , earth's magnetic field , physics , geophysics , magnetic field , quantum mechanics
It has become clear during the past few years that the magnetosphere has a long open tail trailing out from the earth in the direction away from the sun, much as was predicted by Piddington [1960]. That this was so was recognized by Dessler [1964] on the basis of theoretical considerations and Explorer 10 observations of the geomagnetic field made by Heppner et al. [1963]. Striking verification of this analysis was obtained by Ness [1965] in IMP‐1, as indicated by figure l. An interesting feature of the distorted magnetosphere is the magnetically neutral sheet that separates the oppositely directed magnetic field lines.