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To: Simon Green

The Sun also loses mass due to the solar wind.


107 posted on 01/04/2019 5:38:58 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Fred Hayek
The Sun also loses mass due to the solar wind.

Good point. I just looked it up; the sun loses 4 million tons per second due to fusion, and 1.5 million tons per second due to the solar wind. At that rate, in the next 5 billion years it will have lost only about 0.034% of its current mass.

Mind you, it will be turning into a red giant around that time, so we'll have other worries.

108 posted on 01/04/2019 8:11:38 PM PST by Simon Green ("Arm your daughter, sir, and pay no attention to petty bureaucrats.”)
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