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Originally Posted by trinitree88
BigDon. Years ago I read an article in The Los Alamos Journal of Science...circa 1986??..(they print two copies a year I think, Spring and Fall...)...about a pulsar passing through the Earth in a simulation. Perhaps the author(s) have made a similar simulation for a star. (The Earth survived the experience in the computer, which was a surprise, but it took a long time for the melted crust to anneal....I had imagined such a collision to be annihilation of the planet, with a debris ring of asteroids...not so.) pete  |
That exercise was GIGO - Garbage In, Garbage Out. The authors neglected the fact that Earth would be inside the Roche limit around the neutron star long before contact, and would be torn asunder.