Giant Planet Cores May Contain 'Electric' Rocks
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- Giant Planet Cores May Contain 'Electric' Rocks
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Giant_Planet_Cores_May_Contain_Electric_Rocks.html
Minneapolis MI (SPX) Feb 20, 2006 - Researchers said their computer simulation
shows rocks that exist at temperatures and pressures likely to exist at the
cores of Jupiter, Saturn and giant extrasolar planets exhibit electric
conductivity. The researchers - Renata Wentzcovitch and Koichiro Umemoto at the
University of Minnesota, and Philip B. Allen of Stony Brook University in New
York - said the model creates rocks in these environments that are considerably
different from those on Earth.