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Old June 22nd 18, 12:09 AM posted to alt.astronomy
Mark Earnest[_2_]
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Default Why is Jupiter called a Gas Giant...

On Thursday, June 21, 2018 at 5:37:55 PM UTC-5, Herbert Glazier wrote:
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


I suppose you could always say that the liquid hydrogen Jupiter is made of is compressed gas. We call what we fill up our cars with gas. But we need to get our words right or scientists are never going to get to first base, because no one will know what anyone else is talking about.