Xena and Gabrielle among the stars

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[Poll #805455]

Pluto just lost.

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Some people, I don't know if any seriously, say there's some fusion in Jupiter, and it's a star?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

With what evidence? The dividing criteria between jovians and brown dwarfs is normally taken as the latter (a) being dense enough to undergo helium fusion (for a brief period) and (thereafter) convecting. I don't see much (surface) evidence of Jupiter convecting, and it's way below the gravity threshold for helium fusion; which is not to say it might not have been able to do other more esoteric forms of fusion, but if that ever happened, it was very briefly, and a very long time ago, and wouldn't have constituted more than a flash in the planet.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I've no idea. As I say, I don't know if anyone takes it at all seriously. But I've heard it, which is more than any other explanation for Jupiter not being a planet I've.

[fanf]

These people believe that 2010 is true?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I meant to include "people who've read 2010" as well as "people who think it happens but haven't proof" in the "non-serious" category, but wasn't sure how to phrase it...