On Sep 28, 8:23*am, Saul Levy wrote:
Most "starstuff" is light elements, Mitch. *You know: *hydrogen,
helium, etc.

Anything above helium is considered a METAL by astrophysicists.
(We've covered that topic before too!)

Saul Levy

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:10:27 -0700 (PDT), BURT
wrote:



On Sep 27, 6:30*pm, "Mark Earnest" wrote:
"BURT" wrote in message

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I believe they started as a huge rock metal core greater than the
mass
of the earth that was capable of gathering their huge gas atmospheres
through great gravity. Gas by itself does not possess enough gravity..

No, but starstuffs do.

Those starstuffs I take to be the heavier elements that would make the
gas giants core capturing the gas.

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I still think you need a more massive core made of metal and rock to
capture all the gas the giant planets are made of.

Mitch Raemsch