Comments on: Baby it’s cold outside

By: John Phillips, FCD

John Phillips, FCD — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:09:18 +0000

@Steven Charles Raine:

“Incidentally, I don’t think of Brown dwarfs as being “failed stars” so much as “really, really, successful Jupiters!””

Lead melts at 327C

By: Steven Charles Raine

Steven Charles Raine — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:43:40 +0000

Yep, that is,indeed, a pretty cool discovery!

CFSD..etc ..numerals … is a horrible name though – lets give a proper one like, say, New Chile!

Incidentally, I don’t think of Brown dwarfs as being “failed stars” so much as “really, really, successful Jupiters!”

Given ‘NewChile” is cooler than the surface of Venus & the (currently)sunny side of Mercury, I’m curious over whether lead would melt there – would it?

(It would on Venus / sunnyside Mercury hence my qu.)

By: Tod

Tod — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:31:35 +0000

Phil wrote: “The Universe is weird. I’m glad we get the chance to take a look around.”

That’s one awesome and very true statement that encapsulates what life means to me: Sniff the flowers, greet a stranger, protect a child, and just generally observe what’s around you.

Thanks, Phil, and thanks for the always great posts.

By: Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:30:02 +0000

Fascinating. A simple dutch oven can create more heat than this star! (Did a little googling and found they can get up to as hot as 1000F.)

By: zandperl

zandperl — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 02:26:29 +0000

Is there a definition between planet and brown dwarf yet? Last I knew it was still kinda fuzzy.

By: complex_field

complex_field — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:39:13 +0000

This dwarf’s temperature was measured directly? Was Wien’s employed for this? If so, how is the law used in real-life?

By: Shache

Shache — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:20:29 +0000

i was wondering, how could this be the coldest brown dwarf if we haven’t even discovered how big space is. There could be even colder stars that we haven’t even discovered yet. Unless you mean the coldest brown dwarf yet discovered, there is probably a colder star. Now that’s something to think about.