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Letter: Letter

Published 1 December 2001

From David Brewer

What are we to make of the statement “[neutron stars] pack roughly one-and-a-half
times the mass of our Sun into a space about the diameter of a city”
(27 October, p 12).

City? Which city? The Vatican, Los Angeles, London? What next—the
anaconda is as long as a piece of rope, but the adder never gets any longer than
a piece of string?

Ontario

Issue no. 2319 published 1 December 2001

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