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    up at the South Magnetic Pole. Inclination can be measured with a dip circle. An isoclinic chart (map of inclination contours) for the Earth's magnetic...
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    Magnetism is a vector and so magnetic field variation is studied by palaeodirectional measurements of magnetic declination and magnetic inclination and...
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    Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS or SMEX-13) mission was a NASA space observatory mission. The main scientific goal of GEMS was to be...
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    (archeomagnetism and paleomagnetism), and applications to plate tectonics. Magnetism has been known since prehistory, but knowledge of the Earth's field developed...
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  • Natural remanent magnetization is the permanent magnetism of a rock or sediment. This preserves a record of the Earth's magnetic field at the time the...
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    the founders of geophysics and formulated the fundamental principles of magnetism. Fruits of his practical work were the inventions of the heliotrope in...
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    De Magnete consists of six books. Historical survey of magnetism and theory of Earth's magnetism. The lodestone in antiquity from Plato onwards and the...
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    invented by the English physician William Gilbert while investigating magnetism, and further developed 300 years later by the Norwegian scientist and...
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    group, moons orbiting between 11 and 13 gigametres from Jupiter at an inclination of about 27.5°. Its orbital elements are as of January 2000. They are...
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    Jupiter at an average distance of 23,833,000 km in 688.61 days, at an inclination of 166° to the ecliptic (169° to Jupiter's equator), in a retrograde...
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