... The question I was asked was, is Jupiter a brown dwarf? ... And if not, how much bigger would Jupiter have to be to be one? ... So: Jupiter is *not* a BD; it formed like a planet, in the disk around the Sun. ...
... Sun is about 1000 times the mass of Jupiter, which orbits the Sun at a distance of ... find that the barycenter of the Sun/Jupiter pair is actually above the surface of ...
... were so advanced, then perhaps they could tell us something about Jupiter that we didn't know, but that would be revealed to us when the Galileo probe arrived at Jupiter (I posted this to the newsgroup in October, 1995, before the probe reached Jupiter ...
... Right away you can see that even mighty Jupiter, king of the planets, only pulls about 0.01 (= 1%) as hard as the Moon does (just to show how I did this, Jupiter masses 27,000 times the Moon, but is 1640 times farther away. ...
... Image of Jupiter in the night sky (click to enlarge), from Astronomy Picture of the Day Look at Jupiter. Literally! ... Jupiter a brown dwarf, it is still far larger than what Nancy Lieder and Mark Hazlewood say is the mass and diameter of Planet ...
... Rocks can line up due to tidal forces from the Earth, much like Shoemaker-Levy 9 was a long string of chunks when it impacted Jupiter (although the chance of it happening with the Earth is smaller-- the Earth has much less tidal force than Jupiter). ...
... During this bit, the VH-1 writers put up a bubble that said "Galileo probed Jupiter, not Mercury," which is true. ... If they got Jupiter right, and they even got Mariner 10 right, why did they blow it with Voyager 2? ...