http://oklo.org/2009/05/18/sts-starts-stis/ characterizing planetary systems Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:53:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://oklo.org/2009/05/18/sts-starts-stis/comment-page-1/#comment-20355 Lab Lemming Wed, 20 May 2009 12:06:59 +0000 http://oklo.org/?p=332#comment-20355 This may be a stupid geologist question, but if escape-velocity hydrogen atoms are ionized by UV radiation, won't they just get trapped by the planet's magnetic field? How can you identify this feature as a comet-like tail, instead of just the mother of all van Allen belts? This may be a stupid geologist question, but if escape-velocity hydrogen atoms are ionized by UV radiation, won’t they just get trapped by the planet’s magnetic field? How can you identify this feature as a comet-like tail, instead of just the mother of all van Allen belts?

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