Puzzled by Uranus?

;-)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&e=4&u=/afp/space_uranus_magnetism

PARIS (AFP) - Uranus has puzzled scientists ever since the probe Voyager 2 did a flyby in 1986 and found that its magnetic field appeared to break the planetary rulebook.

The evidence from Earth, Jupiter and Saturn determined that a planet's magnetic field should be like that of a bar magnet, with a north and south pole that runs roughly along the sphere's rotational axis.

But Uranus -- and Neptune, too, Voyager found -- are radically different.

Their magnetic fields are tipped over (the north-to-south line lies midway to the equator or even closer) and there are two north and two south poles, as if the field were produced by two bar magnets...

Thanks for posting. :)

:silly:

Sorry ... guess I'm a bit of a geek. Magnetics really interest me and finding out they came up with a theory of why those two planets are different ... I do find it interesting.

And yes, I have many painful memories of dodgeball from school. :cry:

It's hard for me to see! *running for cover*