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Forum Name: Undocumented Features General
Topic ID: 1049
Message ID: 4
#4, RE: FENRIS (the planet)
Posted by Redneck on Feb-08-03 at 02:11 PM
In response to message #2
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>>temperatures ranging from 85 degrees Centigrade to negative seventy
>>degrees Centigrade along the equator.
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>-70C at the equator? What's the axial tilt on this planet? Is
>the equator in a polar region?

Axial tilt is about 25 degrees, slightly more than Earth's. However, a full axial rotation, as mentioned in the profile, is 83.5 days; that means the sun is up for six weeks at a time, then down for six weeks at a time.

Granted, I may be mistaken about -70 C; at the equator, the coldest night stops -just- shy of freezing carbon dioxide, and I don't recall for certain what that temp is; I thought -150 degrees F. The largest continent, Hermann Reuch Land, is a polar (antarctic) continent with a permanent water ice cap and transitory dry ice cap; its high albedo, plus the fact that the non-Reuch surface of Fenris is over eighty percent water, keeps Fenris from being completely uninhabitable. Even so, Fenris is renowned for its fierce storms, as the freezing night side and baking day side battle each other in the usual heat-transfer system.

Look up "Four-Day Planet" by the last great pulp sci-fi author, H. Beam Piper.

Redneck