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A magnetometer is a device for measuring the magnetic field produced by an aurora. For the purposes of this problem, consider an aurora to be a current carrying wire 100 km above you. If the magnetometer reading during an aurora is a value of about 20 nT, how strong is the current produced by the aurora?

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