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Old April 21st 04, 06:42 PM
Pat Flannery
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Default Seasons on gas giant moons

Hop David wrote:


SFAIK Saturn doesn't have a powerful magnetic field like Jupiter's.
Which mystifies me as it would seem the Saturn also would have a
rapidly rotating ball of metallic hydrogen at it's core.


http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/personn...s/sat_mag.html
The core is a lot smaller, and the field lined up better with the axis
of rotation.

Pat