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| Nov 3, 2020 at 19:05 | history | edited | Ali | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2020 at 11:25 | comment | added | ProfRob | @Ali Well they are not. The cores of the gas giant planets have a high degree of degeneracy and are not governed by $PV =nRT$. Further (non-wikipedia) reading can be found at arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0502068.pdf | |
| Nov 2, 2020 at 9:14 | comment | added | Ali | @RobJeffries You are right in the fact that electron degeneracy pressure is what ultimately keeps the core of a gas giant from collapsing. However I still think that gas giants in our solar system are too young for this to become the dominant effect. | |
| Nov 1, 2020 at 21:13 | comment | added | ProfRob | No mention of degeneracy pressure? | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| May 16, 2014 at 20:57 | vote | accept | aserwin | ||
| May 7, 2014 at 17:46 | comment | added | Ali | @dmckee Thanks. I agree, That's another approach(and maybe even cleaner). I might add later. | |
| May 7, 2014 at 3:03 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | This is a good answer. It would be even better if it mentioned the Virial theorem. | |
| Aug 3, 2013 at 5:35 | comment | added | Ali | @WetSavannaAnimalakaRodVance That is a well known number. I think the Wikipedia page of Jupiter mentions it as well. I think it is dominated(even calculated) by heat loss. | |
| Aug 3, 2013 at 2:29 | comment | added | Selene Routley | Could you give a reference for the 2cm a year shrinking? Do you know whether this rate is dominated by heat loss, or by the shrinking arising from space debris falling into Jupiter? | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 11:42 | history | edited | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2013 at 9:57 | history | edited | Warrick | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2013 at 6:49 | history | answered | Ali | CC BY-SA 3.0 |