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To: RaceBannon
Saturn should be on fire if this is true about the core temperature.

It radiates that heat away. One of the links I found said that Saturn radiates away more heat than it gets from the Sun. There must be huge convection processes going on in Saturn where hot material from the core rises, radiates away its heat, then sinks back down into the interior. The cloud tops aren't on fire because they do not retain their heat.

39 posted on 11/12/2009 9:30:07 AM PST by LibWhacker (America awake!)
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To: LibWhacker

The Sun radiates it away, also, that much heat would cause those materials, especially the hydrogen they claim is there, to ignite.

The heat that is claimed, over the mass it extends, would make Saturn and Jupiter the most turbulent of planets, but also on fire.

Not liquid oxygen/hydrogen/ammonia/methane/whatever.


52 posted on 11/12/2009 10:53:14 AM PST by RaceBannon (OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE IS SHOVEL READY...FOR SENIORS!!:: NObama. Not my president.)
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