History Of Science Fiction

What is the mass of the meteorite that the physicist in The Atom(1960’s comic book) carries to his lab?

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

Tags: Fragment, Meteorite, Science Fiction

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One Response to “What is the mass of the meteorite that the physicist in The Atom(1960’s comic book) carries to his lab?”

1. Eli says:

   May 18, 2008 at 9:35 pm

   I assume this is some homework problem of yours? The teacher would not have given you this question with out some resource telling you the density of white dwarf star matter. I have no idea where to find this information, but it must be somewhere in your text book or class notes or something.

   The second question is obviously “this has no plausibility whatsoever” because the answer is probably in the millions or billions of tons or something.