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- Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:07 am
- Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
- Topic: Solar polar flip every solar max...
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Re: Solar polar flip every solar max...
Mmmm.... that's interesting, so we truly could land on a foreign world with the correct counter clock rotation to indicate north in the upper hemi, but magnetically flipped with compass mag north in the bottom hemi? My thought on solar polar flip was a very wild magneticaly gravitationaly and radiat...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Library: Information Desk and Educational Resources
- Topic: Solar polar flip every solar max...
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Solar polar flip every solar max...
If the sun does a polar flip every solar max, as I've recently discovered, then how do we know the upper hemisphere is 'northern'? Or is it standard astronomical notation to label the top of a spacial body as north? (Unless like Uranus spins on a horizontal axis). Plus, ...well, that's a seriously h...