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Re: If Jupiter became a star..?
« on: September 21, 2004, 11:50:20 AM »
hum,
that`s a difficult one...
but in my opinion jupiter isn`t a brown dwarf (because it is not very luminous. ;)
Brown Dwarfs are usually regarded as having a mass between 10^28 kg and 84 x 10^28. and temp of, say,  950 +/-50 K

best to read this link to make up your own mind...




[The important thing here is mass; an extra `solar wind` and extra light is all we should feel, if we had another `star`]