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Dubinin et al. 1977
Dubinin, E.M., Podgorny, I.M., Potanin, Y. M. and Sonett, C.P. (1977). Laboratory simulation of the lunar magnetosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 4: doi: 10.1029/GL004i010p00391. issn: 0094-8276.

The magnetic field disturbance created by the impingement of a supermagnetosonic collision-free plasma upon a hollow, electrically nonconducting body (lunella) has been studied in the laboratory using a plasma accelerator. Diamagnetic currents on the boundary of the downstream cavity which is formed are the source of these disturbances which fringe out within the lunella and extend on into the upstream flow to a distance of about the geometric mean Larmor radius. Additional field perturbations and associated currents appear over the upstream hemisphere. The results are in qualitative accord with lunar magnetometer data and bear upon the interaction of the solar wind with small non-magnetic bodies.

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