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To: BenLurkin

Jupiter, Sol’s failed binary twin ?


4 posted on 05/25/2017 6:08:27 PM PDT by buckalfa (Slip sliding away towards senility.)
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To: buckalfa

Jupiter has insufficient mass to ignite. It would have to be 85 times more massive to be a red dwarf. The smallest red dwarf is about 0.075 solar masses.
Jupiter is not even big enough to be a brown dwarf, which may have some short lived fusion reactions burning deuterium.


9 posted on 05/25/2017 7:48:01 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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