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Dynamics, Composition and Origin of the Geomagnetically-Trapped Corpuscular Radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2021

James A. Van Allen*
Affiliation:
(, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)

Abstract

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Part 3.
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Copyright © Academic Press 1962 

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