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Article #35Re: Moving Venus to Earth orbit
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 20:51
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 20:51
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In article <BvrLM7.6o1@agora.rain.com> trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks) writes: >This business of "igniting" Jupiter has always intrigued me. My understanding >is that had Jupiter been somewhat larger, we would be a binary star system. >What would happen if we crashed Saturn into Jupiter? Would this eventually >coalesce into a small star? No. Jupiter is "nearly" a star only on a logarithmic scale. You would need many times the mass of Jupiter to get any significant fusion activity. -- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: alt.sci.planetary Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Moving Venus to Earth orbit Message-ID: <BvtLxo.Hyn@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 20:51:22 GMT References: <1992Oct5.175033.5361@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <BvrLM7.6o1@agora.rain.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 11