Poul Anderson, The Fleet Of Stars, 3.
See A Freakishly Huge Moon.
Download Guthrie, en route from Amaterasu to Sol, enters the system of Alpha Centauri A after Phaeton has collided with Demeter.
The Demetrian Remnant
a globe
greater than Earth
still molten
glowing red
streaked black by smoke and slag
racked by outbursts
mountainous fire-geysers
crazy spin
chaotically orbiting rocks and shards
some crashing down
fountaining incandescence
surface waves
rings and a large moon forming
So Demeter will eventually cool back into a possibly habitable planet?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And the planet once called Demeter might again be terraformable by humans? Maybe!
Sean
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