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Price 1979
Price, P.B. (1979). Possible detection of energetic Jovian heavy ions at Skylab orbit. Geophysical Research Letters 6: doi: 10.1029/GL006i009p00711. issn: 0094-8276.

Evidence for the presence of sodium ions at a concentration ~10% that of oxygen among the particles with energies 10 to 20 MeV/nucleon seen with a detector on Skylab suggests that Jupiter is a significant source of energetic heavy particles inside the earth's magnetosphere. A numerical estimate based on the density of energetic sodium ions at 50 RJ measured on Voyager I indicates that the source strength is adequate.

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