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To: wendy1946
[Jupiter and Saturn, which would almost certainly be red dwarf stars without the nearby presence of our sun.]

LOL.  What Southern orifice did you pull that out of?

With a mass only 93 times that of Jupiter, AB Doradus C, a companion to AB Doradus A, is the smallest known star undergoing nuclear fusion in its core.[106] For stars with similar metallicity to the Sun, the theoretical minimum mass the star can have, and still undergo fusion at the core, is estimated to be about 75 times the mass of Jupiter.[107][108]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star

The sun's presence has NOTHING to do with with Jupiter or Saturn not being Red Dwarfs.

If either Jupiter or Saturn had the mass required, which they evidently DON'T - there's nothing preventing them from being a companion star to the Sun, as AB Doradus C is to AB Doradus A.

 

119 posted on 10/02/2010 10:37:50 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill; wendy1946
[Jupiter and Saturn, which would almost certainly be red dwarf stars without the nearby presence of our sun.]

LOL. What Southern orifice did you pull that out of

Outside the fact they orbit the sun due to gravitational influences, I was wondering what the correlation was there.

123 posted on 10/02/2010 12:33:41 PM PDT by dragnet2
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