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  • But an upcoming and still unpublished study by Kempton and Bryce Croll at the University of Toronto points more toward a hydrogen-helium atmosphere, several astronomers said.

    Number Of Stars In Universe Could Be Triple The Amount Previously Thought -- 300 Sextillion AP 2010

  • By that logic, the terristial planets (iron-nickle) are just oversized asteroids, while the jovians (hydrogen-helium) are failed stars.

    Dwarf Planets « Whatever 2006

  • Observing neutrinos from the Sun had the potential of testing the theory that the hydrogen-helium fusion reactions are the source of the Sun's energy.

    Raymond Davis Jr. - Autobiography 2003

  • But it's probably a gas giant, a hydrogen-helium planet, with very, very crushing atmosphere, probably no solid surface.

    CNN Transcript Jul 11, 2003 2003

  • The hydrogen-helium mass difference is only briefly discussed.

    Fusion 2000

  • The very gases were utterly alien -- methane and ammonia and a witch's brew of hydrocarbons, stirred in a hydrogen-helium cauldron.

    2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982

  • The fragmentation of the original hydrogen-helium gaseous mixture into galaxies and stars occurred when the exploding universe had cooled off to very nearly its present value — about two hundred million years after the initial explosion.

    COSMOLOGY SINCE 1850 LLOYD MOTZ 1968

  • Controlled by a barometer, pumps filled it with gas supplied by the breakdown of carbohydrate; heat flowed in to keep the interior less dense than the cold native hydrogen-helium which surrounded it at equal pressure.

    Three Worlds to Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • Controlled by a barometer, pumps filled it with gas supplied by the breakdown of carbohydrate; heat flowed in to keep the interior less dense than the cold native hydrogen-helium which surrounded it at equal pressure.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • And it burned with hydrogen-helium fusion at its core, like a star.

    Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963

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