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Subject: Re: VB-8B: First Planet Outside Solar System Discovered
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Date: Tue, 18-Dec-84 11:18:20 EST
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	"Igniting" is a continuum.  Jupiter radiates more energy than
it absorbs due to the fusion occuring in its core from the intense
pressure.  Larger planets would radiate more and more energy from
more complete fusing until it could be considered a star (red-
dwarf status).
	The fact that there are so many binary star systems
would indicate that the processes that occur to create a stellar
system leaves much mass in orbit around the major stellar mass.
It is my belief that almost every star has a "planetary" system
consisting of some amount of orbiting mass.  It seems natural
that we discover the largest ones first.
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