Re: If Neptune goes supernova, was Re: If one of our neighboring stars like Proxima Centauri went nova...

From: Brian Tung (brian_at_isi.edu)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:31:04 +0000 (UTC)

Nick Theodorakis wrote:
> Do you mean like this one:
>
> -----
> "... As for all the gas giant planets, models suggest rocky cores of
> maybe 15 Solar [!] masses, but there is no direct confirmation of
> this."
> -----
>
> from: <http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2466.html>

No, I don't mean that one. There are other, less ambiguous errors,
which I don't recall off the top of my head.

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