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Old June 21st 18, 11:37 PM posted to alt.astronomy
herbert glazier
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Default Why is Jupiter called a Gas Giant...

On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 2:11:45 PM UTC-7, Double-A wrote:
On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 12:18:30 PM UTC-7, Mark Earnest wrote:
On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 1:06:48 PM UTC-5, Herbert Glazier wrote:
On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 8:52:13 AM UTC-7, Mark Earnest wrote:
...when it is an ocean of liquid hydrogen?


Some day these scientists will get things right!

Not liquid,but deep gas in tornado motion.See its eye.Its core is both liquid and solid hydrogen.Bert


You are going against the textbooks now Bert. They say Jupiter is made of

liquid hydrogen. They say only the thin outer layer is gas.



Jupiter is slowly shrinking!

Double-A


Gravity is compressing it,and it is losing stuff as its top thin gas goes out in space.Reality is Jupiter gives off 5% more energy than it gets from the Sun.I think its fast spin helps too.Bert