Earth-sized lava planet? You're standing on it.
The space news world -- and even mainstream -- is buzzing...
Earth-sized lava planet? You're standing on it.
The space news world -- and even mainstream -- is buzzing over a newly discovered exoplanet that's just about the size of Earth.
READ: http://goo.gl/tRn3UJ
But don't pack your bags just yet. If the bazillion-mile travel distance (I can't find anything more accurate) isn't off-putting enough, consider that anyone born there would be celebrating a birthday every four and a half hours. It's 40 times closer to its star than Mercury is to ours, and that makes it hot. Like hot liquid magma hot. So they'd also need to be a fire drake.
But here's some back of the envelope math: Earth would be a writhing ball of lava were it not for the thin -- very thin -- crust we live on.
How thin? Shrunk down to the size of a chicken egg, our crust would be half as thick as an egg shell. Who wants an omelette?
Show your work, my algebra teacher always said: Earth radius = 3,959 miles | Crust = ~25 miles. Chicken egg radius = ~22 mm | Shell thickness = ~.3mm
Like the art? It's not mine. But you can buy from the artist on Deviant Art: http://zuiron.deviantart.com/
The space news world -- and even mainstream -- is buzzing over a newly discovered exoplanet that's just about the size of Earth.
READ: http://goo.gl/tRn3UJ
But don't pack your bags just yet. If the bazillion-mile travel distance (I can't find anything more accurate) isn't off-putting enough, consider that anyone born there would be celebrating a birthday every four and a half hours. It's 40 times closer to its star than Mercury is to ours, and that makes it hot. Like hot liquid magma hot. So they'd also need to be a fire drake.
But here's some back of the envelope math: Earth would be a writhing ball of lava were it not for the thin -- very thin -- crust we live on.
How thin? Shrunk down to the size of a chicken egg, our crust would be half as thick as an egg shell. Who wants an omelette?
Show your work, my algebra teacher always said: Earth radius = 3,959 miles | Crust = ~25 miles. Chicken egg radius = ~22 mm | Shell thickness = ~.3mm
Like the art? It's not mine. But you can buy from the artist on Deviant Art: http://zuiron.deviantart.com/
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