Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meteorite particles and the strength of the magnetic field in the vicinity of the moon are higher than in interplanetary space. It also discovered 70 to 100 times as many energetic electrons as are expected in outer space. Russian scientists attributed the electrons to the "earth's magnetic tail...
Shaped like a Comet. This enigmatic Russian reference to the terrestrial tail was the first apparent confirmation that the earth's magnetic field extends as far as the moon, 239,000 miles away. Earlier observations by U.S. satellites and space probes established that the magnetic field is shaped like a comet with a tail that stretches at least 120,000 miles into space. Now it seems that the electrons Luna encountered near the moon are temporarily confined there by the earth's magnetic tail in much the same way that the electrons and protons of the Van Allen...
...moon revolves around the earth, it passes through the magnetic tail once a month. The passage, which takes two or three days, occurs around the time when the moon is full, on the opposite side of the earth from the sun. Because the moon was full on April 5, only two days after Luna 10 went into lunar orbit, the Russians presumably detected an almost immediate rise in the number of electrons, then a sharp drop-off a few days later as the moon passed out of the tail...
...m.p.h. to about 1,600,000 m.p.h. On the side of the earth that faces the sun, the wind compresses the field into a rounded shell that extends only about 40,000 miles into space. On the dark (or antisolar) side, the field is pushed into a tail that is hundreds of thousands of miles long and waves in the solar breeze. Gaseous comet tails are similarly affected by the solar wind, which always blows them in an antisolar direction-no matter which way the comet is moving...
...nude that your eyes quicken for ruth, the white horse, bawdy as the Apocalypse, tail a flame, his testicles asway, steps into his sunlight harness...