>>Quick question ... I thought Jupiter was a large GG in MT terms.
>>Confirm, somebody? 8-) (Jupiter and Saturn are large, Uranus, Neptune
>>small, pluta pardon Pluto an ice planet. 8-)
>
>Under original rules, yes. Under new rules, Large Gas Giants are size
>105 to 245+ (thousands of miles diameter). Small GG are size 15 to
>105. Jupiter has a radius of 69758 Km (plus or minus), ahich translates
>to size 86.7. Well within the Small GG range.
>
>These rules are, of course, the World Builders Handbook, by DGP.
Oh nooooo..... someone give these people an astronomy lesson 8-(
There's a theory (currently accepted as "presumed to be true" within the
community) that a gas giant won't get significantly bigger than Jupiter.
As the mass goes up, the density will increase fast enough that the size
won't change much at all. I think that this theory predicted that
anything bigger than about a hundred thousand miles will be a sun.
Thus, _every_ gas giant in the real world will be small in DGP's eyes 8-(
That actually is ok. Marc Miller's claim for "what's official for MT" was
that it was "Everything GDW has published for it except Challenge",
thus excluding DGP. We're saved, those aren't the official rules 8-)
- -george william herbert
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