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To: ETL
I nearly fell out of my chair at the telescope

I can see why! I mean, my God, an object with at least the mass of one hundred Jupiters is being yanked around like it's a rag doll... jaw hits floor.

Thanks for the links.

8 posted on 07/14/2011 7:32:55 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

You’re welcome. Thanks for posting the interesting article.

“its companion has more than half the mass of the Sun and is Earth-sized. A penny made of this white dwarf’s material would weigh about 1,000 pounds on Earth.”

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-evolved-stars-fatalistic.html

a half ton penny!!!


9 posted on 07/14/2011 8:08:35 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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