columbia wrote:Jupiter is big:Spoiler:
count2infinity wrote:if you add the volume of the other 8 planets (PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET TO ME, DAMNIT!) they would still not have as big of a volume as Jupiter.
Rylan wrote:count2infinity wrote:if you add the volume of the other 8 planets (PLUTO IS STILL A PLANET TO ME, DAMNIT!) they would still not have as big of a volume as Jupiter.
I wonder what the most dense planet is.
Rylan wrote:That's awesome. Is there an actual surface on Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn or is it just assumed since we can't see past their atmospheres?
count2infinity wrote:Rylan wrote:That's awesome. Is there an actual surface on Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn or is it just assumed since we can't see past their atmospheres?
You can use spectral analysis to have a pretty decent idea of what makes the planet (as far as atomic percentages go...). Based on that, it's mostly speculation as far as how it's distributed and in what form (solid, liquid, gas). Some speculate that the core of Jupiter has enough gravitational pull on it to actually be comprised of metallic hydrogen, which if someone could ever make on Earth, they would be given the Nobel Prize right then and there.
Rylan wrote:count2infinity wrote:Rylan wrote:That's awesome. Is there an actual surface on Jupiter, Uranus, and Saturn or is it just assumed since we can't see past their atmospheres?
You can use spectral analysis to have a pretty decent idea of what makes the planet (as far as atomic percentages go...). Based on that, it's mostly speculation as far as how it's distributed and in what form (solid, liquid, gas). Some speculate that the core of Jupiter has enough gravitational pull on it to actually be comprised of metallic hydrogen, which if someone could ever make on Earth, they would be given the Nobel Prize right then and there.
I have done spectral analysis of cosmic gases, it was pretty cool (spent three days in Greenbank, WV).
Metallic hydrogen? How does that happen, an isotope or just extreme pressure?
columbia wrote:How much energy would it require to do that?
and yield said metallic hydrogen.put enough pressure on hydrogen gas
columbia wrote:toand yield said metallic hydrogen.put enough pressure on hydrogen gas
Grunthy wrote:I'm pretty sure we already have liquid hydrogen, its the metallic that has yet to be discovered.
count2infinity wrote:Grunthy wrote:I'm pretty sure we already have liquid hydrogen, its the metallic that has yet to be discovered.
:thumb: very true. You'd need to then compress it enough to the point where the bond between they hydrogen atoms becomes delocalized like a metal.
Grunthy wrote:count2infinity wrote:Grunthy wrote:I'm pretty sure we already have liquid hydrogen, its the metallic that has yet to be discovered.
very true. You'd need to then compress it enough to the point where the bond between they hydrogen atoms becomes delocalized like a metal.
I wish I was smart enough to make it and become a billionaire, lol.
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