Reminds me of an old, unfinished project. Basic idea was to take the elemental composition of Earth (as a starting point), then place it at .1 AU from a Sol type star.
I was able to work out the surface temp, the hard part was figuring out what would evaporate and escape into space.
The idea was to get an idea what a world rather worse than the one they just found might be like.
To give you an idea, after trolling thru the inorganic compounds list in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and physics (hundreds of pages of fairly small print), the list I came up with of compounds that would be solid or liquid on my little planet fit on one page. Handwritten. And with room left over.
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kayshapero) wrote2009-10-05 01:55 pm
Weird? Not really
It would be so boring...
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I was able to work out the surface temp, the hard part was figuring out what would evaporate and escape into space.
The idea was to get an idea what a world rather worse than the one they just found might be like.
To give you an idea, after trolling thru the inorganic compounds list in the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and physics (hundreds of pages of fairly small print), the list I came up with of compounds that would be solid or liquid on my little planet fit on one page. Handwritten. And with room left over.
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These days, if I had the CD version of the CRC handbook I could probably use a simple filter on the relevant file.