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| Guest |
 Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:07 am |
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Has anybody yet extended the HR diagram to include the recently
enumerated
population of brown dwarves? If so, can anybody provide a link to a
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| LymanAlpha |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:42 am |
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tlarosa11@gmail.com wrote:
Quote: Has anybody yet extended the HR diagram to include the recently
enumerated
population of brown dwarves? If so, can anybody provide a link to a
site
that details it? TIA.
Unless you're doing astronomy in middle earth those are called brown dwarfs.
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"Out here on the perimeter there are no stars"
Steve --Inglo-- |
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| Bill Owen |
| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:45 pm |
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LymanAlpha wrote:
Quote: tlarosa11@gmail.com wrote:
Has anybody yet extended the HR diagram to include the recently
enumerated
population of brown dwarves? If so, can anybody provide a link to a
site
that details it? TIA.
http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/hrd.html among others.
Quote: Unless you're doing astronomy in middle earth those are called brown
dwarfs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwarf indicates that both plurals are
acceptable. But LymanAlpha is right: in astronomy, it's "dwarfs."
-- Bill Owen |
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