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Old 24-05-2007, 12:40 PM
Chr
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There is the case of the brown dwarf star. Which is basically a small body, around double the size of jupiter +, which didn't quite have enough energy to start core nuclear fusion. Because of this, it can often be difficult to work out the boundry between large gas giant planet and small star.
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