Assessing one of the species in the zoo ship, Torrance concludes:
"'I imagine their world, though of nearly Jovian mass, is so close to its sun that that the hydrogen was boiled off, leaving a clear field for evolution similar to Earth's.'" (p. 596)
Generalizing from the single instance of the Solar System, theoreticians had thought that a planetary system would have terrestroid planets near the sun and gas giants further out whereas more recently detected exoplanets include Jovoids in close orbits as in this speculation by Anderson/Torrance.
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Very reasonable guess for the time; it just happened not to be correct, with the exception of hypothetical "chthonic planets": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Jupiter
(This invalidate John Babnes' t"Thousand Cultures" planets, too.)
-kh
Hi, Keith
Would you sling me an email, please. It's a stretch but there's a possibility that there's a way past your logging in to comment problem.. My email address is zen26144@zen.co.uk
Regards
Ketlan
Kaor, Paul!
Now that was interesting, that Anderson thought of the possibility there being "hot Jupiters" long before they were discovered for real.
Sean
P A was a master at theoretical planetary science.
-kh
Kaor, Keith!
Absolute agreement!
Sean
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