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To: Jonty30

You have to have a protecting lay that reflects most of the UV rays. Size has little to do with it.


32 posted on 05/14/2013 7:16:05 PM PDT by aft_lizard
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To: aft_lizard

There is a correlation between the size of a planet and its ability hold an atmosphere, even if it’s an imperfect correlation.

Here’s an article as to why Titan has an atmosphere.

http://www.astrobio.net/index.php?option=com_retrospection&task=detail&id=1755


40 posted on 05/14/2013 7:22:12 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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