Re: Van Allen belt behaviour...

snidely wrote:
> >From the British Antarctic Survey is a report on understanding
> radiation hazards wrt to the Van Allen Belts and space weather.
> See <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050908081518.htm>.

Andrew Yee also has a post of the press release in sic.space.news
(Message-ID:
<Pine.LNX.4.44.0509091109330.15613-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)

You can get to it by
<http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.news/browse_frm/thread/ac5741a5b77af683/a4dceccdafaba4c9#a4dceccdafaba4c9>
or
<http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.news/msg/a4dceccdafaba4c9?dmode=source>



>
> A brief excerpt:
> "Reporting in the journal Nature this week, the team describe how their
> study of rare and unusual space storms provided a unique opportunity to
> test conflicting theories about the behaviour of high energy particles
> in the Van Allen radiation belts* - a volatile region 12000 miles
> (19,000 km) above the Earth."
>
> and "This new information will help spacecraft operators and space
> weather forecasters who must predict when satellites and missions are
> most at risk from radiation events allowing them to take measures to
> protect instruments and systems from damage, and astronauts from risks
> to their health."
>
> The BAS site is <http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/>

/dps

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