-----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton > Formerly a single star struck by a rogue planetoid donating some fusing mass and capturing the invader?
Terry - Something like that is probably more likely. At least until the reality of LENR in cosmology is proved. Here's what I was going after. It has been known that Neptune radiates much more heat than Uranus, and this is considered an anomaly since the composition is similar. However, higher spin may be involved. Neptune's atmosphere is also similar to Jupiter and Saturn in that it is composed primarily of hydrogen with some deuterium - but it has a rocky core and a high helium content. The core might suggest that there are elements like nickel present which can catalyze LENR or f/H - and this is converting some hydrogen slowly to helium over the eons. There is not enough good data to make that leap of faith, of course. Jones On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/the-astrophysical-journal/ > > A mystery companion planetoid forms a binary system with a brown dwarf, > located 460 light-years away in Taurus. The object is too small to be > another brown dwarf, too young to have formed by accretion, and heavier than > most planets - but too light for nuclear fusion. The object's mass is > between 5-10 Jupiters, making it too small to fuse deuterium. The > International Astronomical Union uses 13 Jupiter masses as the threshold for > fusion. > > Yet look a the image. There is clearly a subdued glow in the sphere to the > right of the dwarf - as evidence by the few lit pixels, which could not > possibly have been caused reflection from the brown dwarf, or heating from > the dwarf due to its rotation in front of that star and great distance. > > Since the glow cannot be evidence of hot fusion, a few vorticians may be led > to wonder - what about LENR? or fractional hydrogen as the source?
