Talk:Dipole model of the Earth's magnetic field

What is the magnetic moment of the earths dipole

Magnetic moment, eg in SI units of A.m² ? - Rod57 (talk) 16:42, 19 March 2017 (UTC)

NASA gives a value of 8e22 A.m^2. Various other sources give field strengths that agree with this. – Eddy 84.212.132.95 (talk) 13:37, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Mistake in units of $B_0$ ?

The Equations section gives a field strength of "3.12e-5 nT" for $B_0$ (which is then scaled by O(1) quantities to get the components of the field); various other sources give figures for field at Earth's surface of order 30 to 60 µT, which would make $B_0$ of order 3e-5 T, not nT. I'm assuming that "n" is "nano" and it would seem to be misplaced; if nT means something else than "nano Tesla", could someone please explain.

Sources giving O(3e-5 T):

• https://www.wisegeek.com/how-strong-is-the-earths-magnetic-field.htm
• https://phys.org/news/2016-05-strength-earth-magnetic-field.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth's_magnetic_field gives 25 to 65 micro T

and https://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/29dec_magneticfield.html gives 8e22 A.m^2 as the Earth's magnetic moment, from which I again calculate a predicted field strength at the surface of order 3e-5 T. Based on this I shall edit out the n from nT, as I suppose it to be a typo; if someone has just cause to correct it, an explanation would be constructive ! – Eddy 84.212.132.95 (talk) 13:47, 6 February 2021 (UTC)