Penn: 5 tons

February 07, 2005 | Created May 01, 2003 | Neutron teaspoon

A student page, I think, at Penn State

A neutron star has a diameter of only a dozen or so miles (NASA), and densities of about 5 tons per teaspoon (Bennett, 297).

The Bennett reference is: Bennett, Jeffrey, et al. The Cosmic Perspective (Brief Edition). New York: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2000. But I haven't looked it up.

Posted by Jonathan at May 1, 2003 02:08 PM
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