Even if the Earth were not engulfed, I am pretty sure it would still be destroyed when those outer layers were shrugged off as the Sun becomes a planetary nebula. Certainly that would destroy the gas giants (since all they are is gas, and that's what the PN is as well, so they'd be blown away), but I'm not 100% sure the PN would destroy rocky or icy bodies.
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Date: 2009-05-11 06:25 pm (UTC)