by Empeda » Wed Sep 21, 2005 11:29 am
orin stepanek wrote:Rotating at 30 times per second; would that tend to shed matter from the surface of the neutron star?
Orin
I wouldn't have thought so, to be a neutron star there's enough gravitational energy to overcome electron degeneracy, so you'd need an extremely large amount of energy to start shedding mass...
Feel free to correct this thought people.....!
[quote="orin stepanek"]Rotating at 30 times per second; would that tend to shed matter from the surface of the neutron star?
Orin[/quote]
I wouldn't have thought so, to be a neutron star there's enough gravitational energy to overcome electron degeneracy, so you'd need an extremely large amount of energy to start shedding mass...
Feel free to correct this thought people.....!