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Saturn-size brown dwarfs? Who would’ve thought!
by veunes 2y ago
Saturn-size brown dwarfs? Who would’ve thought!
- jmclnx 2y agoNot sure what is meant by size ? IIRC, Saturn is kind of "fluffy" and could float on liquid water. So a Brown Dwarf with the radius of Saturn, why not ? But its mass would probably be much greater than Saturn, but compressed down to Saturn's size :) I thought I read somewhere a Brown Dwarf with 13x the mass of Jupiter would be about the same size as Jupiter.
- astrobe_ 2y agoI remember that before the Shoemaker-Jupiter collision [1] of '95 there were rumors that it could "ignite" Jupiter giving birth to a star. It was probably on the same level as the rumors that the CERN accelerator could create a black hole, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker-Levy_9
- veunes 2y agoYep, a 'Saturn-sized' brown dwarf would have Saturn's radius but vastly more mass