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Originally Posted by Gemini2544
From my understanding the process is slow & takes years, As the pole swings it travels across the globe. So for a short time the North pole may be in fiji as it slowly flips. The magnosphere will remain just tilted.
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My understanding is that the field gradually weakens (as it is doing at the moment), fades away to a low irregular field (ie no clearly defined N or S pole), then starts strengthening again with the poles reversed.
Geoff