Re: Planets around a white dwarf

In article <z8ydndanybJITy3anZ2dnUVZ_s-pnZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Erik Max Francis  <max@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>sigidunum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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>> I'm told here's some reason to think a white dwarf might have planets
>> -- either survivors from its main sequence days (possibly somewhat,
>> er, ablated), or new planets that might condense after the transition
>> to a white dwarf.
>
>Well, after all, the first extrasolar planets were discovered orbiting 
>around white dwarfs.
>
	I thought it was a neutron star?
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