russian.sensation asked:
In the classic 1960’s science-fiction comic book The Atom, a physicist discovered a basketball-sized meteorite (about 10 cm in radius) that is actually a fragment of a white dwarf star. With some difficulty, he manges to hand-carry the meteorite back to his laboratory. Estimate the mass of such a fragment, and what is the plausibility if this scenario?
Beth
In the classic 1960’s science-fiction comic book The Atom, a physicist discovered a basketball-sized meteorite (about 10 cm in radius) that is actually a fragment of a white dwarf star. With some difficulty, he manges to hand-carry the meteorite back to his laboratory. Estimate the mass of such a fragment, and what is the plausibility if this scenario?
Beth
