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Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2019 – Plattner
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium – Fall 2019 – Plattner
Speaker: Alain Plattner(University of Alabama) Title: Planet Mercury's Weird Magnetic Field Abstract: It had been known since the Mariner 10 flybys in the 70s, that Mercury is the only other terrestrial planet with an active core magnetic field. Until NASA's MESSENGER satellite mission (in orbit 2011 - 2015), little was known about the morphology of