Within comets? Don't think there's enough insulation to keep them much above absolute zero...

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alcaray — 3/15/2006 12:00:17 AM (archived)

...way out there. Unless they had a *lot* of radiogenics. But then, we would probably already know that they had a mess of heavy elements, which we do not.

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Well? The Stardust science team has released some interesting mineralogical data. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/14/2006 12:24:17 AM
- Radiogenic heating? - Robert Clark - 3/14/2006 11:36:23 AM
  - Within comets? Don't think there's enough insulation to keep them much above absolute zero... - alcaray - 3/15/2006 12:00:17 AM
- re: Well? The Stardust science team has released some interesting mineralogical data. - nick hoffman - 3/14/2006 9:22:17 AM
  - Good point, and... - Buck Galaxy - 3/14/2006 8:34:54 PM
  - Brace for "the return of the exploded planet" hypothesis! (n/t) - et - 3/14/2006 6:24:51 PM
    - A planet doesn't have to explode to spew hunks of itself. (n/t) - alcaray - 3/14/2006 10:16:44 PM
      - You're right. It just has to drink Dewars. (n/t) - et - 3/15/2006 12:40:16 AM
        
        That would be chunks (n/t) - alcaray - 3/15/2006 7:08:04 PM
- re: Well? The Stardust science team has released some interesting mineralogical data. - Ken Murphy - 3/14/2006 2:19:00 AM
  - Deep Impact : High Resolution Optical Spectroscopy with the ESO VLT and the Keck 1 telescope - ljk - 3/14/2006 3:53:45 PM

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