On 9 Jan 2019 at 10:33, Catherine Berry wrote:

> Isn't that amazing?? The two kinds of planets that fascinate me are
> very common: "hot Jupiters" and "super-Earths". There's quite a bit of
> selection bias from our observing techniques, but it still seems like
> these each account for a large fraction of the planets in our galaxy.
> And nobody expected either of them; they're utterly unlike anything in
> Sol system.

On the other hand, while they'll require massive changes to the
system generation rules, they don't interfere with most other things.

Biggest problem is that the hot jupiters pretty much make planets in
the life zone impossible.

I don't recall enopugh about the super-earths to know if they'd be
suitable for bases or colonies.

Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com