Monday, 26 February 2018

Mimir And The Milky Way

The blue star, Mimir, four times as bright as Sol, is surrounded by a miniature nebula;

one of Mimir's planets, Regin, is more massive than Jupiter although its gravity has condensed it to a smaller size;

Regin's moons include the Luna-sized, metal-rich Wayland;

beyond, "...the Milky Way foamed around heaven."
-Poul Anderson, A Circus Of Hells IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 193-365 AT Chapter Four, p. 221.

Norse mythological nomenclature:

Mimir
Regin
Wayland

- and another description of the Milky Way

1 comment:

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Kaor, Paul!

And altho Wayland was only about the size of our Luna its gravity was far heavier than that of the Moon, about 46% Terran, I think. Of course the reason for that was due to Wayland being metal rich.

Sean