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Topic: Earth's magnetic field

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  Magnetic    Field  
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Most admires:Albert Einstein,  Nostradamus
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Dream job(s):Astronaut
Favorite era(s):The future
Favorite activity(s):Reading horoscopes
Favorite book(s):"Relativity: The Special and the General Theory" by Albert Einstein
Interest(s):Physics,  Astronomy,  Science
Favorite great thinker(s):Arthur C Clarke,  Albert Einstein,  Ampere
Listens to:98 Degrees
Starsign:Aquarius,  Sagittarius,  Pisces
Favorite destination(s):The Moon
Favorite time of year:Autumn
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant

The earth's magnetic fields hold our collective thoughts, feelings, and consciousness.
Magnetic fields of around 500 mG are thought to be produced by electric currents flowing deep within the earth's core.
The Earth's magnetic field is thought to be due to the liquid iron-nickel which is in its core.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

The Earth's magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind also produce the Van Allen radiation belts, a pair of doughnut shaped rings of ionized gas (or plasma) trapped in orbit around the Earth.
It is possible that the ufo is creating a magnetic field under or around the ship that enables it to actually push itself away from the earths gravity by playing off of the earths own strong magnetic fields.
The Earth's magnetic poles might be starting to flip say researchers who have seen strange anomalies in our planet's magnetic field.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Introduces Earth's magnetic field and how spacecraft that carry instruments to measure natural magnetic fields must be themselves "magnetically clean" so as not to distort the measurements.
The event is created when large numbers of electrically charged particles stream at high speed along the Earth's magnetic field and collide with air particles 100 km above sea level.
Magnetic Field -- Over the past 150 years, careful measurement by scientists have shown that the earth's magnetic field decreases by half every 1400 years.
 
 
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