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

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Transactions of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , 1962 , pp. 99 - 136
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