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May 12, 2017 at 9:52 | history | edited | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jan 19, 2016 at 0:21 | comment | added | JDługosz | Good point. If it was made of strong stuff to hold the shape, it would act like giant mountains and rise out of the atmosphere. Perhaps the planet has no atmosphere, or life exists in low-lying areas. | |
Jan 18, 2016 at 21:12 | comment | added | nigel222 | Except that if a planet is large enough to hold an atmosphere, it is large enough to flow into the familiar oblate spheroid shape of Earth and the other planets under the ptessure caused by its own gravity. ISTR that's actually part of the definition of "planet". | |
Dec 19, 2014 at 7:08 | history | answered | JDługosz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |