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Why can't the Earth's core melt the whole planet?
Earth core temperature is range between 4,400° Celsius (7,952°
Fahrenheit) to about 6,000° Celsius (10,800° Fahrenheit).
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Why can't the Earth's core melt the whole planet? In other words, what ...
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What would the surface temperature of the Earth be without the Sun? [closed]
If the Sun would not heat the earth, and never had heated it in the past,
its surface would only be heated from the inside.
What would be the current temperature of the surface?
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Would a micro black hole have enough energy to heat and liquefy the Earth from within without consuming it first?
Let's say an alien race drops a microscopic 72135 metric ton black hole into the center of the earth. It's Schwarzchild radius is too small (only 0.0001071103 femtometers) so it won't actually be able ...
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How much change in Earth's orbital distance to change average temperature by 1°C?
How much closer/farther would the Earth need to be to/from the Sun to effect a $1 \sideset{^{\circ}}{}{\mathrm{C}}$ increase/decrease in average temperature?
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Why doesn't the heat of the Earth's core diffuse to the surface?
The Earth has a crust, mantle, outer core and the inner core with each one getting hotter than the next. How come, over millions and millions of years, the heat that is at the center of the Earth hasn'...
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