Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , English . Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , -- Spanish . Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , -- German . Home page and Introduction to "De Magnete" , -- French . A review of "De Magnete" . Another review of "De Magnete" . ... More about "De Magnete" . Performing Gilbert's Experiment on Induced Magnetism . ... Gauss and the Global Magnetic Field . ... The Self-Sustaining Dynamo in the Earth's Core . ...

Plasma phenomena occuring at one place in the magnetosphere also affect other locations This linkage is most pronounced between points that share the same field line, since field lines guide the motion of ions and electrons. ... It follows that the places on Earth most sensitive to distant magnetic effects are the "polar caps" , the regions around the magnetic poles. A good example is the polar aurora . ... way polar field lines . ... and to the Sun . ... Next Stop: #26H. Polar Cap--History . ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...

Cosmic Research, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2004, pp. 435­488. Translated from Kosmicheskie Issledovaniya, Vol. 42, No. 5, 2004, pp. 453­508. Original Russian Text Copyright © 2004 by Veselovsky, Panasyuk, Avdyushin, Bazilevskaya, Belov, Bogachev, Bogod, Bogomolov, Bothmer, Boyarchuk, Vashenyuk, Vlasov, Gnezdilov, Gorgutsa, Grechnev, Denisov, Dmitriev, Dryer, Yermolaev, Eroshenko, Zherebtsov, Zhitnik, Zhukov, Zastenker, Zelenyi, Zeldovich, Ivanov-Kholodnyi, Ignat'ev, Ishkov, Kolomiytsev, Krasheninnikov, Kudela,