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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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To: ETL
A penny made of this white dwarf’s material would weigh about 1,000 pounds on Earth

But a feather compared to a penny made from the material of a neutron star --which would weigh a billion tons.

17 posted on 07/17/2011 11:10:21 AM PDT by Gena Bukin
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To: ETL

A haypenny by any other name ...


21 posted on 07/17/2011 5:00:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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