Talk:Dipole model of the Earth's magnetic field
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What is the magnetic moment of the earths dipole
[edit]Magnetic moment, eg in SI units of A.m2 ? - Rod57 (talk) 16:42, 19 March 2017 (UTC)
NASA gives a value of 8e22 A.m^2. Various other sources give field strengths that agree with this. – Eddy 84.212.132.95 (talk) 13:37, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Mistake in units of $B_0$ ?
[edit]The Equations section gives a field strength of "3.12e-5 nT" for $B_0$ (which is then scaled by O(1) quantities to get the components of the field); various other sources give figures for field at Earth's surface of order 30 to 60 µT, which would make $B_0$ of order 3e-5 T, not nT. I'm assuming that "n" is "nano" and it would seem to be misplaced; if nT means something else than "nano Tesla", could someone please explain.
Sources giving O(3e-5 T):
- https://www.wisegeek.com/how-strong-is-the-earths-magnetic-field.htm
- https://phys.org/news/2016-05-strength-earth-magnetic-field.html
- https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field gives 25 to 65 micro T
and https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/29dec_magneticfield.html gives 8e22 A.m^2 as the Earth's magnetic moment, from which I again calculate a predicted field strength at the surface of order 3e-5 T. Based on this I shall edit out the n from nT, as I suppose it to be a typo; if someone has just cause to correct it, an explanation would be constructive ! – Eddy 84.212.132.95 (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2021 (UTC)