OFF: Re: Interesting project

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tor 22 apr 1999 10.45 +0100 "Jonathan Jarrett"
<jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> No astronomer I, but although Jupiter is massive, Saturn, Uranus
> and Neptune are no tiddlers. I'm not sure the effects on the system would
> be any more severe - wouldn't there be an equivalent sort of calm zone
> such as we have inside the giants' orbits?

     On a related notion, I'm sure I once read some SF story
about a life-bearing planetoid which was actually the moon of
a whacking great gas giant.  Well, the reckon a few of our
gas giants' moons could have life, theoretically.

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
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