Acceleration due to the solar wind

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Does anyone know where I can find the magnitude of the force exerted by the solar wind?

It's for a jackson problem (6.11, part b). He asks us to compare the radiation pressure to the corpuscular radiation.

I've googled it and only found the velocity of said wind.
 
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