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Old September 18th 08, 01:27 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default Equilibrium and Ham examinations

I am asking you: What if the sun put out nothing except
EM waves. Would comets still have a tail or not?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com


Are you talking about the ion tail or the dust tail? The dust tail is
affected by EM; but the ion tail is affected only by magnetic forces.

http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/tail.html