An artist's visualisation of the pulsar and its orbiting planet. Image credit - Swinburne Astronomy Productions
To: Red Badger
2 posted on
08/25/2011 1:15:45 PM PDT by
Puppage
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3 posted on
08/25/2011 1:19:07 PM PDT by
NYer
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To: Red Badger
Amazingly, it rotates more than 10,000 times per minute, has a mass of about 1.4 times that of our Sun but is only 20 km in diameter. About 70 per cent of millisecond pulsars have companions of some kind. Pretty big motor. Wonder what it's hooked up to.
4 posted on
08/25/2011 1:20:04 PM PDT by
going hot
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How many carots we talking here? It’s interesting how the mass of a gaseous sun ends up as mostly carbon.
5 posted on
08/25/2011 1:20:42 PM PDT by
Huskrrrr
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After reading the article at the link, perhaps this ‘planet’ is really just the accompanying ‘white dwarf’ that they mention, yet do not show in the video.
Perhaps it is even a double ‘neutron star’ and that is what causes the rapid spinning of the EMISSIONS PULSE ?
Perhaps the neutron star doesn’t really spin as fast as the pulse, yet scientists are sticking with that theory because it is ingrained in their teachings (and grants)?
6 posted on
08/25/2011 1:20:42 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
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Sssssshhh, this is the second post on this and if my wife sees it, she’ll want it.
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geez...
20 Km wide, spining 10,000 times in a minute...
that’s way cool
8 posted on
08/25/2011 1:23:06 PM PDT by
Mr. K
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But you can't have it, it's mine!
13 posted on
08/25/2011 1:26:08 PM PDT by
Beowulf9
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in the 2001 books, Arthur C. Clarke speculated that when Jupiter turned into Lucifer (A sun), chunks of it’s diamond core landed on the moon Europa.
14 posted on
08/25/2011 1:26:31 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
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To: Red Badger
Liberace would have been fascinated.
27 posted on
08/25/2011 2:02:37 PM PDT by
jazusamo
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This diamond star is where Al Gore has been storing all his carbon offsets.
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