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Observations of cosmic ray intensities at places where there are large surface magnetic field anomalies suggest that discrepancies between measured cosmic ray intensities and intensities predicted by Lemaitre-Vallarta theory for the motion of charged particles in a dipole field, arise because of differences between the earth’s real field and the eccentric dipole approximation to it, rather than because of a distortion of the earth’s outer magnetic field.
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Rothwell, P., Quenby, J. Cosmic rays in the earth’s magnetic field. Nuovo Cim 8 (Suppl 2), 249–256 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02962532
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