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James Van Allen was presenting his findings to the world. The patch of space hugging the top of our atmosphere was mysteriously radioactive. That's what Explorers I and III gad clearly shown. He still wasn't exactly sure what this meant, or why it would prove to be important, but that hadn't prevented him from laying out the results to assembled scientists at the National Academy of Sciences. More difficult was explaining them to the journalists at the press conference that followed. Van Allen struggled to find the words. The radiation they had discovered seemed to congregate in a giant cloud, spread like a doughnut with Earth occupying the hole in the middle. It was corpuscular radiation -- that is, charged particles -- grinding the planet in a giant, well..something like... "Do you mean like a belt?" one reporter demanded. "Yes, like a belt," Van Allen replied. And thus the "Val Allen Belt" was born. ~ Page 226
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