To: buckalfa
Jupiter has insufficient mass to ignite. It would have to be 85 times more massive to be a red dwarf. The smallest red dwarf is about 0.075 solar masses.
Jupiter is not even big enough to be a brown dwarf, which may have some short lived fusion reactions burning deuterium.
9 posted on
05/25/2017 7:48:01 PM PDT by
Fred Hayek
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To: Fred Hayek
Jupiter has insufficient mass to ignite. It would have to be 85 times more massive to be a red dwarf. The smallest red dwarf is about 0.075 solar masses.
Jupiter is not even big enough to be a brown dwarf, which may have some short lived fusion reactions burning deuterium. Both Jupiter and Saturn emit more energy than each of them receive from the Sun. Ergo, some source of energy is driving them beyond Fusion energy the gravity driven fusion.
12 posted on
05/25/2017 10:08:10 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
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