A Matter of Some Gravity
May. 12th, 2016 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In The Surface Gravity Plateau, Centauri Dreams offers some interesting computations on the surface gravity of planets. It seems that surface gravity as a function of mass has a surprising interval of rough constancy in its graph. (The article also gives reasonable approximations to its graph outside the interval of constancy. I'll have to remember those formulas.)