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To: NYer

Objects below the mass threshold to be considered even “brown dwarfs”. These should however still theoretically show up on infrared due to heat generated by gravitational contraction, much like Jupiter.


13 posted on 05/19/2011 1:33:53 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (All Hail the No Talent Pop Star pResident.)
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To: Fred Hayek

Their composition would also be different from that of any dwarf star — ?? Aren’t dwarfs made out of squishium or some such thing where the press of gravity is enough to collapse any atom?


16 posted on 05/19/2011 2:32:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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