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Icy 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted Around Nearby Barnard's Star
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(11-28-2018, 02:34 AM)stevebowers Wrote: This object might only have a thinnish layer of water ice - making it technically a superarean world.

Hmm. Now I'm starting to see a world that plugs into Barnard's Star, Barnard Belt, and the volatile shortages.

A beefy super-terrestrial planet with limited permafrost reserves would be hard to access during the First Federation, so the system description of being volatile-poor doesn't need to change. By the time it's easier to regularly access super-terrestrials, a clade of high-G tweaks might've monopolized the world and its resources.

And the planet would make a good shepherd for the system's asteroid belt.

I'll finish up Gearhead...soon...and get to work on something for Barnard's World.

No, "van de Kamp's World"! That's gotta be the name.
Mike Miller, Materials Engineer
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RE: Icy 'Super-Earth' Exoplanet Spotted Around Nearby Barnard's Star - by Cray - 11-29-2018, 10:11 AM

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