To: Jack Hydrazine
Jupiter’s mass is too small for hydrogen to fuse to helium by initiating the triple alpha process nuclear fusion - creating a star.
54 posted on
07/04/2016 8:55:17 PM PDT by
goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
So we would have the density needed to crunch hydrogen into a metallic condition, but not that needed to start a star.
55 posted on
07/04/2016 8:59:25 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
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