In article ,
pyotr filipivich wrote:
>[Default] I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that
>jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote on Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:51:01
>+0000 (UTC) in soc.history.what-if :
>>In article ,
>>pyotr filipivich wrote:
>>>>
>>>I don't think you could get any help from a fast rotation,
>>>I doubt centrifugal force would really counter gravity at the plant
>>>surface, even at the equator.
>>
>>Consider Haumea as a model:
>>
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haumea_(dwarf_planet)
>
> Hmm, learned something new.
>
> SO the question now comes, what is the perceived surface gravity
>on such a planet.
Variable depending on location and beyond my ability to provide.
I would imagine Mike Brown, the good one, has worked this out but
I don't know that he has made the work available online (although
I have always found him very approachable).
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