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Old September 28th 08, 12:49 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
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Default Giant gas planets and how they gathered their gas at formation

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.

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