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IF Venus had a magnetic field, it would at inferior conjunctions influence the corpuscular streams from the sun to the earth. We should expect a variation, probably a decrease, of the corpuscular intensity, which could reflect itself in the international daily magnetic character figures.
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HOUTGAST, J. Indication of a Magnetic Field of the Planet Venus. Nature 175, 678–679 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175678a0
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