I'm trying to find a way in RSS scale to make a somewhat realistic habitable water world around a gas giant I'm making, roughly the size of Jupiter. The main issue is the radiation zone, if it's too close and the gas giant spins too fast, then the place won't be habitable. the water world itself is roughly earth sized.

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    that too ._.

    +1 2.5 years ago
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    1,276 LampEnjoyer

    @SamTheFox Oh I thought you meant by a form of tidal lock

    2.5 years ago
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    you are attracted to an atom a billion light years away

    but the attraction is incomprehensibly small

    +3 2.5 years ago
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    1,276 LampEnjoyer

    @SamTheFox interesting that it's gravitationally bound, that's one of the things I didn't expect to happen.

    2.5 years ago
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    should be about a million kilometers from the planet

    and it probably should be a bit smaller than earth size, otherwise a larger barrycenter will appear

    i've tested jupiter's gravity vs earth's gravity in a simulation and learned that jupiter is slightly gravitationally bound to earth

    +2 2.5 years ago

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