Magnetotails at unmagnetized bodies - Comparison of Comet Giacobini-Zinner and Venus

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Sep 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987jgr....9210111m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 92, Sept. 1, 1987, p. 10111-10117.

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Cometary Magnetospheres, Geomagnetic Tail, Giacobini-Zinner Comet, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Solar Planetary Interactions, Venus (Planet), Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetohydrodynamic Flow, Comets, Giacobini-Zinner, Magnetotail, Magnetic Properties, Comparisons, Planets, Venus, Magnetic Fields, Imf, Flow, Velocity, Shear, Orbiters, Spacecraft Observations, Pvo Mission, Pioneer Venus Orbiter, Ice Mission, Characteristics, Physical Properties, Interactions, Solar Wind, Ionopause, Formation, Ions, Densi

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Both comet Giacobini-Zinner (G-Z) and Venus have magnetotails consisting of draped interplanetary magnetic field lines. This field line draping is caused by a velocity shear between regions of greater flow speeds away from the bodies and lesser flow speeds near to the bodies. Data obtained within the Venus magnetotail by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and within the G-Z tail by the International Cometary Explorer traversal of G-Z have previously been combined with stress balance considerations to infer many of the physical characteristics of these two magnetotails. In the present paper the authors compare and contrast these physical characteristics and thereby examine those aspects of the interactions with the solar wind and draped magnetotail forming processes which are common at the two bodies, and those which are different.

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