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Black Baptist

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Apr 27, 2010, 5:45:05 PM4/27/10
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If all the asteroids in the solor system impacted with jupiter would it be
enough mass to cause jupiter to ingnite?

Barry Schwarz

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Apr 29, 2010, 12:10:51 AM4/29/10
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On 27 Apr 2010 21:45:05 GMT, Black Baptist <pr...@the.church.com>
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>If all the asteroids in the solor system impacted with jupiter would it be
>enough mass to cause jupiter to ingnite?

Jupiter already contains well over 70% of the extra-solar mass in the
solar system. Even if all the planets and asteroids and comets joined
in, it wouldn't grow even 50%. If you limit the growth to just the
asteroids, the growth would be pretty miniscule as a percentage.

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Black Baptist

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Apr 29, 2010, 8:40:50 AM4/29/10
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Barry Schwarz <schw...@dqel.com> wrote in
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Thanks for the reply...so basically there's no chance of us becoming a
binary star system then?

Golden California Girls

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Apr 29, 2010, 9:57:16 AM4/29/10
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Gravitational capture.

Black Baptist

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Apr 29, 2010, 5:13:21 PM4/29/10
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Golden California Girls <gldnc...@aol.com.mil> wrote in news:hrc37p$b5b$1
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> Gravitational capture

of what? another star?

bert

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Apr 30, 2010, 5:54:02 PM4/30/10
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On Apr 29, 5:13 pm, Black Baptist <p...@the.church.com> wrote:
> Golden California Girls <gldncag...@aol.com.mil> wrote in news:hrc37p$b5b$1

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> > Gravitational capture
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> of what? another star?

Compres 25 more Jupiters and you will have enough gravity to create
fusion. Jupiter has a surface gravity about 210 % more than Earth.
Suns core is 40% 0f its total mass. Great heat and pressure there
treBert

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Apr 22, 2012, 8:44:38 AM4/22/12
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On Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:10:51 AM UTC-4, Barry Schwarz wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2010 21:45:05 GMT, Black Baptist
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> wrote:
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> >If all the asteroids in the solor system impacted with jupiter would it be
> >enough mass to cause jupiter to ingnite?
>
> Jupiter already contains well over 70% of the extra-solar mass in the
> solar system. Even if all the planets and asteroids and comets joined
> in, it wouldn't grow even 50%. If you limit the growth to just the
> asteroids, the growth would be pretty miniscule as a percentage.
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What is the temperature at Jupiter's core? TreBert

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Nov 30, 2014, 6:27:46 PM11/30/14
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On Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:45:05 PM UTC-7, Black Baptist wrote:
> If all the asteroids in the solor system impacted with jupiter would it be
> enough mass to cause jupiter to ingnite?

The Sun is 99% of the mass of the solar system . My thinking is if all the mass of the solar systrem was added to Jupiter it would not be enough by far. TreBert
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