Thanks Red Badger.
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Posted on 10/10/2013 2:17:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
It’s just the Borg home base. Nothing to see here - move on.
...reaction to start soon- maybe a few million more years or maybe never, if that is correct.
Magratheia!
Maybe Zaphod and Ford are there!
It would take roughly 65 Jupiter masses (or 0.1 solar masses, some say 0.08 solar masses) for p-p chain initiation. Brown dwarves as low as 15 Jupiter masses can burn deuterium and lithium, but will quickly exhaust that fuel since it is only a small percentage of the mass of the brown dwarf (still mostly hydrogen). Six Jupiter masses would not be sufficient to ignite, so much of the heat is due to continuing gravitational contraction, coupled with the thermal mass. The same applies to Jupiter and most other gas giants.
PING!!!!!
Of interest.
A Strange Lonely Planet Found Without A Star
Science Daily | 09 October 2013
Posted on 10/10/2013 12:49:33 AM PDT by zeestephen
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3077076/posts
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