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Originally posted by om@umr.edu@Mar 25 2004, 08:12 PM
In view of these uncertainities, it is intriguing that the mass you calculate for the sum of these four layers is only twice "the mass of the sun as measured by the orbits of the planets."
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It shouldn't be THAT intriguing, for one thing I didn't allow for ANY compression, but we know from earthbound experiments that the iron in the core mentioned above would compress a great deal, as would the iron-silcates in the outer core, and the atmosphere. We are probably talking about a mass of ten or twenty solar masses for the brief time before it all collapses.
I think it should take some kind of effort on your part to explain why the Iron shouldn't simply collapse onto the inner neutron star. Otherwise you are making an outrageous claim that can't be backed up with some kind of explanation.