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To: RadiationRomeo; icanhasbailout

A star is a star, a planet is an inert non-star. The gas giant planets in our system probably have some kind of solid core, albiet small. Neptune’s is larger than Uranus (had to work in the latter, because you just know someone wants to get smart with it), although Uranus is larger. Jupiter’s rocky core exceeds the size of the Earth, but the total mass of Jupiter is 318 x Earth masses.


20 posted on 08/30/2011 6:58:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

I thought Jupiter had a diamond core?


22 posted on 08/30/2011 7:02:29 PM PDT by bigheadfred (But alas)
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