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To: Joe Hadenuf
By the way, the "mass" here is the gravitational mass (i.e., what you'd put into Kepler's laws for a satellite orbiting far away). This is distinct from the baryonic mass, which is what you'd get if you took every particle from a neutron star and weighed it on a distant scale. Because the gravitational redshift of a neutron star is so great, the gravitational mass is about 20% lower than the baryonic mass.

Brace yourself for one of my shameless and spectacular displays of ignorance:
Why isn't this a violation of the "equivalence principle," which involves gravitational and inertial mass -- not baryonic mass (a new term to me).

44 posted on 04/11/2002 12:28:25 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
Baryons are subatomic particles that are generally either protons or neutrons. They are the source of stellar--and therefore galactic--luminosity

As for your question, I have not a clue.

45 posted on 04/11/2002 12:41:33 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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