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Question on the solar wind
Hi Group,
Just wanted to find out : The solar wind particles are electrically charged and arrive at the earth with great speed, then get trapped by the magnetic field in the magnetosphere envelope round the Earth. Right... Now, what about quantity? please can you guys say: 1. what speed the particles hit the magnetosphere ( ~ approximately?) 2. how much particle mass (kg) we get over a 24-hour period or 365 day period of time? 3. if they are mostly negative or positive ions (electrons / protons) 4. if the trapped particles could ever be turned back into neautral atoms of normal matter by a orbiting spacecraft that is desgn to do that? just doing some research for a theory idea. thx for any answers. Ciao. Joe. |
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On 28 Feb, 12:45, "Joe Young" wrote:
Hi Group, Just wanted to find out : The solar wind particles are electrically charged and arrive at the earth with great speed, then get trapped by the magnetic field in the magnetosphere envelope round the Earth. Right... Now, what about quantity? please can you guys say: 1. what speed the particles hit the magnetosphere ( ~ approximately?) 2. how much particle mass (kg) we get over a 24-hour period or 365 day period of time? 3. if they are mostly negative or positive ions (electrons / protons) 4. if the trapped particles could ever be turned back into neautral atoms of normal matter by a orbiting spacecraft that is desgn to do that? just doing some research for a theory idea. thx for any answers. Ciao. Joe. Try the SOHO page. Lots of answers there. Pierre MK-UK |
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1: about a million miles ea hour
3: Look at the van Allen belts; there are both. 4: Their different masses and speeds make that clumsy. The belts are sticken there like the moons are about their planets. |
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Our magnetosphere is apparently rather badly failing us, at roughly -.
05%/year Therefore, eventually the surface of Earth will directly benefit (or perhaps not exactly benefit on behalf of our frail DNA) from receiving all of that solar wind. Actually, Dr. Van Allen was very much against manned space travels, in part because of the lethal aspects of what the solar wind contributed to the otherwise nearby lunar dosage of secondary/recoil photons that includes gamma and hard-X-rays, and otherwise from the continual cosmic trauma of other gamma and hard-X-rays. Unfortunately, we still have next to nothing that's all that interactively reporting on behalf of the specifics of what our Van Allen belts represent, other than the matter of fact that these belts are getting a little closer to Earth, making the SAA contour extremely large and unavoidably more lethal by the year. The magnetosphere and of the Van Allen belts within are essentially of taboo/need-to-know physics, and obviously you do not need to know about such physics, or of whatever related science, as that's why you're not going to get those good answers to your honest questions. - Brad Guth |
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