Published August 21, 1975
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Journal Article
Dynamo generation in Mercury
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Stevenson, D. J.
Chicago
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Abstract
Observations during the most recent encounter of the planet Mercury by Mariner 10 seem to have confirmed the existence of a small but intrinsic magnetic dipole of about 3 × 10^(−3) gauss R_M^3, where R_M is the radius of Mercury. This field may be small enough to have a non-dynamo explanation, but it is nevertheless of interest to examine whether dynamo generation is possible for the present Mercury.
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© 1975 Nature Publishing Group. Received June 9; accepted July 1, 1975. I thank F. H. Busse, N. F. Ness, and S. C. Solomon for discussions. This work is supported by grants from NASA and the NSF.Additional details
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