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Word: tablets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teaspoon of neutron-star stuff would weigh about a million tons, a human would be crushed to the thickness of a postage stamp, and the entire population of planet Earth, if shipped to a neutron star, would be compressed into a volume about the size of an aspirin tablet. Strange objects, these neutron stars they represent demonstrably non-terrestrial states of matter. Their abnormal properties are surpassed by only one other type of phenomenon--the black hole...

Author: By Eric J. Chaisson, | Title: Exploring the Invisible: Astronomy in the 70s | 1/7/1980 | See Source »

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