Questions tagged [planets]
For questions about any large astronomical bodies classified as planets, and their effects on their systems.
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Can a fast planetary rotation create a planet with an equatorial continent, preferably with very high mountains and two polar oceans?
I’m trying to create a planet with two small polar oceans with equatorial supercontinent in the middle. The land is in turn divided in two by high mountains that act as barrier and a source of water ...
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Is my topology/are my climate zones alright?
This is my first try at worldbuilding, and I need some feedback. I've filled in what I hope are realistic climate zones, ocean currents and topology for this current state of the world, all done in ...
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Binary Star System Build - Alpha Centauri
I'm not sure if this site or Astronomy would be better, but I figured I would try here instead. I am
attempting to create a [semi]plausible star system in Alpha Centauri for a series. The system was ...
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What should an inactive planet's topology be for nutrient circulation?
I'm trying to engineer an Earth mass planet built initially out of pure silicon dioxide (silica).
So basically, imagine a glass sphere slightly larger than Earth somewhere in the Goldilocks zone, ...
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Alpha Centauri/Binary Star Planet Orbits
One of the physical constraints to planetary systems around Alpha Centauri A and B that many papers have pointed out is that the planets would need to orbit in the plane of the A-B Orbit, not the ...
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Habitable low mass super earth and its habitable high mass moon feasability
So, I've got a fantasy world where there is a super-earth with Earth-like gravity (aim is approximately half-again the diameter of Earth) that is the homeworld of non-native humans(introduced to the ...
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Twin worlds governed by nitrogen
https://www.space.com/amp/we-dont-understand-exoplanet-habitable-zones
In the link above is an article about how atmospheric nitrogen could affect habitability of a planet. Examples given are a wet ...
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Maximum shell world planet size with earth-like conditions
I am trying to work out the theoretical limits on the size of a shell world (made with orbital rings constructed around a black hole). I have the following constraints:
The light to the planet must ...
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Plate Tectonics/Geology on Carbon Planets
After researching on and off for a few months, I thought I had how a Carbon Planet would work down right, up to and including an ammonia-based xenobiology, but a video I saw today got me wondering if ...
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Fossil fuels production optimization
I'm sure that a jungle planet would probably have more fossil fuels than Earth, as there'd be a lot more organic carbon, which would get buried underground and converted into fossil fuels. We'd ...
