[TML] Jewelry was Re: Personal Armor Noise
James Ramsay
james.ramsay at gmail.com
Thu May 8 02:11:10 MDT 2008
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Timothy Little <tim at little-possums.net>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:22:58AM -0400, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> > Uh... the Sun is actually pretty small
>
> Compared with probably 90%+ of the stars out there, it's huge. Most
> of the stars we see are the brightest (and most massive) exceptions.
>
>
> > and isn't expected to produce anything heavier than carbon and
> > oxygen.
>
> It will, just not in amounts that compare with that produced by more
> massive stars.
>
>
>
And of course with stars an increase in mass does not mean it has a larger
volume.
--
James Ramsay aka the_raptor
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