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Question of the Day! What are the chances that the brown dwarf solar flare was, instead, an impact by another object similar to the comet that struck Jupiter, creating a massive explosion and not a flare? Answer: Thats an interesting suggestion! The energy liberated by a comet infall would be about right, the shock wave might produce high enough temperatures, and the time scale is not unreasonable. The main difficulty is the probability of such an event occurring during a random 12 hour observation. chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2000/1054/
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:15:34 +0000

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