Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth - eviltoast
The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form.
  • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some people theorize that such a planet would actually be better for rocketry because they’d be forced to use significantly better propellant than chemical rockets, so, they’d start with nuclear rockets. If they got that far, anyway.

    • TheBurlapBandit@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      And since their planet is so much larger, it makes the vast irradiated zones created by failed launches easier to ignore!