What is Sun made of?
"The Ghost In The Machine" wrote in message
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| In sci.physics.relativity, Robert J. Kolker
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| on Mon, 05 May 2008 07:47:48 -0400
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| Mark Earnest wrote:
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| The Sun is so heavy that it is made of many elements right off of the
| periodic table, elements of spirit.
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| That is why couples enjoy the night time sky so much.
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| The stars have spirit.
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| The Sun is as massive as it is because it is made of lots nd lots of
| hydrogen. As Carl Sagan might have said the sun consists of billyuns of
| billyuns of billyuns of hydrogen atoms.
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| Sol's mass is on the order of 2 * 10^30 kg or 2 * 10^33 hydrogen atoms
I see... 1000 hydrogen atoms to the kilogram ... 1 gram each. Interesting...
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