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the discovery of the smallest extrasolar planet yet detected. About seven-and-a-half times as massive as Earth, with about twice the radius, it may be the first rocky planet ever found orbiting a normal star not much different from our Sun. If the equation I found for surface gravity is any good g=GMe/Re^2 (looks like G=1 if Me and Re are normalized to Earth's, plugging in values for the moon 1/81 Me and 1/4 Re gets me a g of 1/5, which isn't that far off. Also for the Sun 365000Me and 100Re yields gravity of 34, which ain't that far off the number of 27g I remember reading somewheres.) Then the surface gravity of that planet would be about 1.8 times Earth's. Someone in good health could deal with that (assuming normal Earthlike conditions otherwise). |
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