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From: Jon A  Cruz
Date: 23 Nov 2001 02:38:20
Message: <3BFDFC4F.F4D2FD2E@geocities.com>
"Bob H." wrote:

> I like this.  Looks as though Atlas had it in a clinched fist.  Makes me
> think about gravity and how the water and clouds would have to be tightly
> bound to the planet.  The solid material would need to be extremely rigid to
> defy that gravity.

Or...

The gravity would have to be non-uniform.

Guess what? It is. (well not to that degree)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1668000/1668872.stm
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/features/watkins.html


--
Jon A. Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html


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