[meteorite-list] (OT) Habital Planet Discovery Announcement

From: Chris Peterson <clp_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:18:11 -0600
Message-ID: <D0F990E2807B47589A8BA4F0E37EEED2_at_bellatrix>

Surface gravity compared with Earth can be approximated as m/r^2, where m is
in Earth masses and r is in Earth radii. If this new planet is only three
Earth masses and is 1.4 Earth radii, its surface gravity will be 1.5g. If
the planet is four Earth masses and 1.2 Earth radii, its surface gravity
will be 2.8g. 2g would seem to be a reasonable mid-range value if we take
intermediate values for size and mass.

Chris

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Cloudbait Observatory
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl 's" <carloselguapo1 at hotmail.com>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:46 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (OT) Habital Planet Discovery Announcement


>
> Good evening All,
>
> Sorry for being really dense about stuff like this but I don't quite
> understand how a planet with a mass three to four times and a diameter 1.2
> to 1.4 times Earth will only have it's gravity only slightly higher? How
> much is "slightly"? Thanks for the link, Count.
>
> Carl2
Received on Wed 29 Sep 2010 09:18:11 PM PDT