Magnetic sphere and induced current

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Hey guys, I have a scenario where I can't figure out what would happen.

If I have a magnetic sphere traveling down a track made of two conducting wires (each with current flowing through them)... what would happen?

I'm not sure how the magnetic field of the wire and the magnetic field of the sphere would interact... and could a current be induced in the wires in the opposite direction?
 
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The current carrying wires would have a magnetic field which would interact with the magnetic field of the sphere. The details of the resultant motion would depend on all sorts of things like the strength of the magnet and the current, whether the magnet were a dipole, or a quadrupole, or some higher-order multipole, the mass, friction, spacing, initial velocity, initial angular momentum, etc.