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What are the challenges of living on a planet with constant meteor showers?
I have been thinking of a planet that has or is experience(ing) a lunar holocaust; moon broke into pieces and many of them fell to the planet. Initial disasters probably caused a massive mass-...
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Naturally maintaining an atmosphere being stripped by a brown dwarf‘s magnetosphere
In this scenario we have a brown dwarf with a powerful magnetic dynamo from metallic hydrogen. The magnetic field is modeled after Jupiter’s but just three orders of magnitude more powerful.
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Weather among the average tropical coastal regions? (I can't be more specific than this since i lack a map, I apologize) [closed]
I have a super-earth world. The surface of the world is shallower due to extra gravity, so shorter mountain ranges and less ocean depths. The world orbits a binary star system at a distance of the ...
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Can a dual planet have an orbit around the Sun similar to Earth's?
This is a sequel to my previous question How big could a moon be before its orbit became too unstable or tidally locked to its planet
OK, let's imagine that the thing everyone thought was a moon was ...
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Proxima Centauri and tidally locked planets
Proxima Centauri may have a rocky, earth like planet close to its dim sun. Tidally locked, the sun facing side may have a temperature up to 30 degrees Celsius and a dark side of -30 C. This would make ...
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