Sunday, February 13, 2022

Bulletin 101001: BVS-1

NAME: Phssthpak’s Star. Later renamed BVS-1, by the Institute of Knowledge on Jinx.

CLASSIFICATION: Neutron star.

MASS: 1.3 times mass of Sol.

COMPOSTOIN: Eleven miles diameter of neutronium, topped by half mile of collapsed matter, and topped by perhaps twelve feet of normal matter.

SURFACE GRAVITY: 1.7 x 10^11 G, Earth standard.

REMARKS: First non-radiating neutron star ever discovered. Atypical compared with many known pulsars; but stars of the BVS type would be difficult to find as compared with pulsars. BVS-1 many have started life as a pulsar, with radiating gas shell, one hundred million to a billion years ago, then transferred it rotation to the gas shell, dissipating it in the process.

Protector, Larry Niven

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