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From: jkw@lanl.ARPA (Jay Wooten)
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Subject: Re: "At the moment Uranus's south pole points..."
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 13:49:30 EST
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> How do I tell which end is North and which is South? I assume that the
> "North" pole of Mars is the one that's pointing roughly parallel to the
> North pole of Earth. That doesn't transfer to Uranus very well.

In fact, it doesn't transfer at all since geological evidence shows that
the Earth's magnetic poles switch places every few million years...

	  Jay Wooten  Los Alamos National Lab  ARPA:jkw@lanl.ARPA