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What is the maximum size of a rocky planet, and what happens when a rocky planet is "too large"?

Astronomy

I understand what happens with gas giants when they are too large - they become brown dwarfs or red dwarfs, as they get to 70-something Jupiter masses.

What about rocky planets, though? I expect that they would have a lot of trouble undergoing fusion reactions...

Posted Apr 13, 2013, 11:59 PM UTC

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