Re: Sci-Fi movie "Impact"

In article <do1r14tlos0h3nlbimchib6a55hm0jdn7l@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Jack Bohn <jackbohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Mac Breck wrote:
> 
> >I guess it all boils down to how big of a piece of the star became a
> >part of the moon.  After all, we're not talking about the whole star,
> >here.  Also, what would possibly cause a piece of a red, white or brown
> >dwarf star to become dislodged and travel here?  Pretty much anything
> >from a kinetic impact with such a star is going to be sucked in by the
> >star's gravity and become a part of it.
> 
> I'm thinking anything that hits it is going to be coming in
> faster than escape velocity, and could transfer greater than
> escape velocity to smaller pieces at the impact site.  (This
> would be the case whether the Moon, Mars, Earth, brown dwarf,
> etc.)  Am I being dense?
> 
> Speaking of dense, the thing that holds all that mass in a dense
> package is the gravity.  A smaller chunk of the mass won't have
> that much gravity, won't it burst out to a more normal density
> again?

You'd think.
> 
> And, of course, the final question for making a movie of it: what
> can we, as concerned citizens, do about dwarf star material on
> the Moon?

Give it to Ray Palmer.

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