Can Saturn Become A Sun?

Question

I need true Scientific Evidence for or against this because I can't seem to find anything on this. Some guy thinks that Saturn can and will become a Sun. This is based on his belief that the Sun was or is a planet.

Answer 1

The rule is simple: get enough mass together and the pressure at the centre will trigger nuclear fusion.

The mass needed for this is 80 times the mass of Jupiter (some use 75 instead of 80)

see the first paragraph of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf

Saturn is not even as massive as Jupiter. Saturn's mass is only 30% of Jupiter's.


The Sun is over one thousand times the mass of Jupiter (definitely a star).

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The word planet comes from Classical Greek aster planetes (wandering star) which was used for the seven sources of light that moved among the fixed stars:

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. (The Greeks would have used the Greek names -- Helios, Selene, Hermes... -- not the Latinized names we use today).

So, in that sense, the sun was a "planet" until the sense of the word planet was changed (the first time was around 1514 when Copernicus proposed the first Sun-centered system).

Answer 2

The so called Lucifer Project is another of the BS internet conspiracy claims going around faster than Saturn's rotation, which is only ten hours BTW.

No, Saturn cannot become a star without considerably more mass added to it. End of story,except for the fact that the Sun was never a planet.

BTW to the poster above (Joan), the Sun is not the center of the universe, I think you mean Solar System, second there is nothing that says that a star cannot orbit another star, binary star systems are actually more common than our own type and third the Sun is by far not the only "fiery ball in universe" by a long shot.

Answer 3

The sun was never a planet, and none of the planets in our solar system can become suns.

The minimum mass needed to form a brown dwarf sun, which isn't quite massive enough to initiate fusion, is at least 39 Saturn masses (actually, scientists use Jupiter masses as the units, a brown dwarf would need to be at least 13 Jupiter masses - Jupiter is about 3 times the mass of Saturn).

To form a full star (albeit small, but still fusing hydrogen) requires a mass of at least 75 Jupiters (or about 225 Saturn masses).

Answer 4

I love this question. The sun is the center of the universe and is the only fiery ball in the universe. Saturn weighs less than the sun which is why Saturn is caught in the gravitational pull of the sun and orbits around it. Simply put, Saturn doesn't have the fire or mass to be a sun. I think 'some guy' might be a little moon struck.

Answer 5

No. A sun (star) needs to be about 13 times as massive as Jupiter to star fusion in it's core, and that's the definition of a star - it can burn hydrogen. And Jupiter is bigger than Saturn. So, no. And the Sun was never a planet.

Answer 6

When a solar system is being formed, the bodies start off as gas balls. The bigger gas balls are able to achieve combustion and become stars. The rest cool down and become planets.

Saturn cannot become a star anymore. It is, instead, a gas giant that is the result of cooling down. Jupiter is often referred to as a failed star as it's the biggest planet in the solar system, but it never achieved the temperature/pressure for combustion.

Answer 7

No, Saturn is a planet..

Answer 8

If it supernovas

Answer 9

No.