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Remote Sensing of the Magnetic Moment of Uranus: Predictions for Voyager

Hill, T. W.; Dessler, A. J.

Power is supplied to a planet's magnetosphere from the kinetic energy of planetary spin and the energy flux of the impinging solar wind. A fraction of this power is available to drive numerous observable phenomena, such as polar auroras and planetary radio emissions. In this report our present understanding of these power transfer mechanisms is ap…