Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > I wouldn't want such an object anywhere near me... :P
> "Dragon's Egg" by Robert Forward. Very cool book.
> Always neat to read sci-fi set in exotic locations (like in orbit around a
> neutron star) written by someone who actually understands the physics of it.
Assuming a neutron star of something like 2 times the mass of the Sun,
with no accretion disc and radio-quiet (ie. it's not a pulsar), would it
be considerably different from orbiting a regular star?
Of course another question is whether such a "peaceful" neutron star
can form in practice...
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- Warp
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