Re: A newcomer here

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 14:29:34 -0700, Brooks Moses
> Well, it's possible to have a planet with earth-levels
> of gravity and arbitrarily high mass, so long as one
> doesn't mind having a hollow planet. (And, at some
> point way up in the "arbitrarily high" scale, the
> planet's crust starts becoming remarkably thin....)

If it has earth levels of surface gravity, the crust
will remain several thousand kilometers thick - though
this may be remarkably thin compared to the planet's
size.

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