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Anyone good in astronomy that can answer this?

Estimate how close a 0.4-solar-mass white dwarf must come to the center of a 3-solar-mass subgiant with radius 10 times that of the Sun in order for the white-dwarf's tidal field to strip matter from the companion's surface.

Thoughts?

April 27, 2014

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TrueAtheist

The answer is 30 million miles

Reply April 27, 2014
imWanda

God made gravity

not f/kin planets.

Reply April 27, 2014