Jupiter's rocky core bigger and icier, according to new simulation

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 15:07 in Astronomy & Space

Jupiter has a rocky core that is more than twice as large as previously thought, according to computer calculations by a University of California, Berkeley, geophysicist who simulated conditions inside the planet on the scale of individual hydrogen and helium atoms...

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