Re: [Traveller_TNE] Celestial Real Estate Overstock

--- Peter Gray <> wrote:

>
> If we can infer density data, yes, but there's no mention of it. If its metal cored, and density
> is about the same as Terra than it would be about 13 times as much volume...... let's see ... if
> we assume that the Earth is exactly 8000 miles in diameter then this world would be about....
>
> 18,800 miles in diameter.
>
> But of course that requires a pretty tall assumption. If it is the core of a gas giant that
> never
> materialized, and since it is in the outer system of a metal poor red dwarf star, then it could
> be
> nearly 22,000-28,000 miles diameter.
>

And if we us the simplified gravitational equation in WTG/WBH the gravity of the molten cored
first world would be around 2.3G. The latter rocky cored bodies would be 1.72G and 1.06G
respectively. So if one of these could be found lying in a habitable zone near a star it would be
quite a find for prospective colonies, though the vast distance to the horizon might be rather
disorienting to the human eye. Bear in mind that that a smaller body than this one had been found,
and we've just upset the entire Traveller world desigh canon.

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