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Van Allen Belt

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by plawiuk | August 11, 2006 at 03:03 pm

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RIP James A. Van Allen, the physicist who made the first major scientific discovery of the early space age, the Earth-circling radiation belts that bear his name, and sent spacecraft instruments to observe the outer reaches of the solar system, died Wednesday in Iowa City. He was 91.

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