Hmm,as i recall ... on a BBC episode about space(wich there are many i
think),they said that THEY THINK gas giants have solid core but have not
100% proof... IT can be speculated,but...why not.i too beleave this is
possible...And btw,this is no news ...its on for quite a while.At least here
in Europe.
Just to comment on this
Cya in space
"Agena 2003" wrote in message
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What you learnt at school and in some books is false! There aren't on one
side
telluric planets (as the Earth) and of the other one the giant planets (as
Jupiter) but all the planets are telluric. Indeed, the planets which one
calls
in twists "gas giants" contain a solid core, that we can't see because it
is
hidden by a thick atmosphere. For example, it's written in the French
Pierre
Kohler's very serious book "The Earth and Celestial bodies" edited by
Hachette
Encyclopedy page 138 that the centre of Jupiter is occupied by a sphere of
solid hydrogen about 92000 km in diameter. So Jupiter is not a gazeuze
planet
of diameter 142700 km but a telluric planet of diameter 92000 km recovered
by a
thick opaque atmosphere of a height of 142700 - 92000 = 50700 km, counts
that
it is necessary to divide by two because the thickness is counted in both
diametrically opposite directions, what gives an atmospheric thickness of
25350
km. There is a similar structure for Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.