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Brunberg and Dattner in Sweden, around 1950, used a terrella to simulate trajectories of particles in the Earth's field.

Podgorny in the Soviet Union, around 1972, built terrellas at which a flow of plasma was directed, simulating the solar wind.

Hafiz-Ur Rahman at the University of California, Riverside conducted more realistic experiments around 1990.

All such experiments are difficult to interpret, and are never able to scale all the parameters needed to properly simulate the Earth's magnetosphere, which is why such experiments have now been completely replaced by computer simulations.