Planet Forms Other Than Sphere

[Fellow]

All big planets are spheres, but it's interesting to think what kind of gravity it would occur on the different parts of the surface of other shaped planets.

 

For example cube, cylinder, cone, pancake or torus

[Sayonara]

I'm assuming you mean hypothetically speaking?

 

You could probably model that on a home PC without too much trouble.

[Radical Edward]

no, they are oblique spheroids, not spheres. and the only planet shapes will be gravitationally stable ones.

[wowbagger]

For example cube, cylinder, cone, pancake or torus

 

Or sea-turtle-and-elephants shaped.

 

I really would like to see the look on the astronomers faces if they found that one

 

Any Pratchett readers here?

[Sayonara]

Great A'tuin isn't really a planet

[HeXeN]

Well, what if the planet was positioned in such a way that its neighboring celestial bodies' gravity deformed the planet? You could probably model this on a computer and make any shape you wanted by changing the positions and gravities of the surrounding bodies.....

[wowbagger]

Great A'tuin isn't really a planet

 

A celestial body (or maybe it should be bodies in this case) then.

 

Have you ever thought about the fact that the discworlds sun is weird enough to warm up the rim instead of the hub, when it should be doing the opposite? The hub is of course exposed to more sunlight than the rim. Or maybe there should be large deserts on the rim because of the sun passing so close by?

 

A great ice waterfall "falling" out in space, now THAT would be beautiful.

 

 

Having elephant legs standing in your way maybe messes up your sense of physics

Or there is simply a lot of magic there.

Or narrativium.

Or just Terry telling me to get a life.

[JaKiri]

The elephants cock their legs to allow the sun to pass duder. It says so.

[wowbagger]

Exactly.

The legs are in the way so they have to move them.