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Thread #132580   Message #3000699
Posted By: Slag
06-Oct-10 - 01:42 AM
Thread Name: BS: Re. Jupiter
Subject: RE: BS: Re. Jupiter
Exact-O SS, atmospheric disturbances are what cause stars to fall you know. Meteors, meteorites and meteorologists. It's all about the weather!

I have bunches of "do you knows" like do you know that the bright red star in the shoulder of Orion is so large that if it were where the sun is, it's rather nebulous surface would reach to the orbit of Saturn? That's a diameter of about 4 billion miles. The Sun'[s diameter is just under a million at 864,464 miles. Put another way the Sun is 125 Earths in diameter and just over 12 Jupiters in diameter. As our old friend Jack Horkheimer always said, "Keep looking up!"