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To: glock rocks
Wonder how a planet with such low mass retains helium in its atmosphere?
8 posted on 02/16/2003 10:52:17 AM PST by ngc6656
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To: ngc6656
It really doesn't. The helium is constantly being lost and replaced; it's from the Sun.
9 posted on 02/16/2003 3:28:28 PM PST by petuniasevan (Free Republic of Katzenellenbogen at NationStates.net)
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