Saul Levy wrote:
You forgot one thing: The entire Sun is accumulated!

Saul Levy


On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 01:51:46 +0100, Ray Vingnutte
wrote:

On 16 Sep 2005 17:23:50 -0700
"Raving Loonie" wrote:

Ray Vingnutte wrote:
Well maybe...maybe not..

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0509/15asteroids/

Any consequence arising from that hail storm of asteriods falling into
the sun ?

Wouldn't have thought so, the sun being so much more massive compared to
a planet or protoplanet, the sun probably hardly noticed it ;-) No idea
of an estimate for the accumulative mass of asteroids that would have
gone into the sun but I would guess that by the time it was happening
the sun had got well underway as far as it's own mass was concerned.

Just me guessing..



RL

Which leads to that interesting question ...

... or is it obvious and I am dense ... and is the 'pun' meaningful ?

Back when we briefly mentioned the Earth, I got the rough impression
that the interior of it really doesn't seem to matter a hill 'o beans
save that it has a spinning ?solid? iron core.

I.E. ... Inside, Mother Earth is a quirky curiosity that doesn't mean
much one way or another.

I assume that as one changes phase into liquid, thence solid, and
perhaps some really peculiar 'plastic' sort of phases ... not to
mention mixed phases ...


.... Thence structures, and structures of materials can get really,
really, really, unsual, unpredicatable and consequential. Perhaps,
sincerely through 'lack of data' it is ignored. Doesn't seem like a
prudent bet.

Going back to the sun ... I would think that there are also more
stable and structuraly robust entities inside it ... not to mention
those esoteric physical states that I am utterly ignorant in regard ...

Seems that the aggregates, their migration, sublimation or whatever may
have real consequence, evolving consequence. ...

....It would also suggest that each star is very distinct and different
from one and another.

Or maybe I'm imagining nonsense.

Just not happy with the notion that our sun and stars are simple balls
of hydrogen and helium .... seems very naive, to me.

Nor does the notion that the giant gas planets are simply 'that' sit
well with me!

All sorts of '****' falls into them ... like it does into the Earth,
.... like it does into the sun.




?????????

RL