In article <3b93f8d0@news.povray.org>, Thomas Lake says...
> Well in real life such a planet would have to be very small to maintain its
> cube shape, anything large would be pulled into a sphere under it's own
> pressure and gravitational attraction. So if this planet, or planetesimal,
> was as small as it would have to be you could simply jump across the edge,
> the minimal gravity should make it fairly easy. Of course real life is
> boring:-) Nice image!
> 
True: the scale points to a small planet. But if you'd imagine the base 
form of a much larger planet made of an extremely strong (alien kind of) 
material, that maintains its shape under heavy forces, you could make 
all kinds of planets from it - think of Niven's Ringworld... :))

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Regards,  Sander

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