fusor
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
- Coined by Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, (UCB) at the 2003 IAU conference.
[edit] Noun
fusor (plural fusors)
- (astronomy) a celestial body that through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core, at any point in its life. These include stars, stellar remnants, and brown dwarfs.
[edit] Translations
(astronomy) a celestial body that through self-gravity, is able to perform nuclear fusion within its core
[edit] See also
- planemo
fusor (astronomy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:fusor (astronomy)
