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What was Jupiter's radius if it radiated as a blackbody?
According to theoretical models, 4 billion years ago Jupiter may have had a luminosity as high as 10^-2 Lo (Lo=luminosity of Sun) and a surface temperature of 1000K. What was Jupiter's radius then if it radiated as a blackbody?
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