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To: SunkenCiv

Photo gives a great image of the roiling malstrom that could have been another star; if Jupiter had only been 60x heavier!


6 posted on 10/23/2011 7:57:29 AM PDT by 6SJ7 (I'm an AmeriCain!)
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To: 6SJ7
Photo gives a great image of the roiling maelstrom that could have been another star; if Jupiter had only been 60x heavier

Or if it was compressed by a swarm of black monoliths...

9 posted on 10/23/2011 8:17:56 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1005 of America's holiday from reality...)
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...I was checking facts last night. Didn't know that an inner core was solid H2!!!
11 posted on 10/23/2011 8:25:19 AM PDT by gargoyle (...it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them...)
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To: 6SJ7
Photo gives a great image of the roiling malstrom that could have been another star; if Jupiter had only been 60x heavier!

Has the math been redone since I took Astronomy 101 back in the sixty's? At that time, professor sagan would say Jupiter needed only 10% more mass before it had enough gravity to start the star sequence.

14 posted on 10/23/2011 9:50:41 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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