Galilean terraformation

Please do it - I'm by no way sure about my calculations and it would be nice
to compare them other ones made independently. Also, I used the simplest
kind of calculation possible: just using average velocity and stuff. But
that is obviously a poor modeling of reality, since I'm not taking into
account the fact that the slow molecules can eventually gain momentum and
get lost in space.

I remember about seeing a long time ago an equation for atmospheric
dissipation - it was used in a website for demonstrating that the 51 Pegasi
planet is more likely a gas giant, despite being so close to its star. I'll
look for that again and try to apply the equation to the case of the
Galilean moons.

Thanks in advance,

Lucio

From: "Bill"
To:
Sent: tera-feira, 13 de fevereiro de 2001 12:38
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: Galilean terraformation

I will have to do the calculations, but I had calculated the
equilibrium pressure in a gas torus around Europa to be about 2%
of the earth atmospheric pressure, if there was enough material on
Europa, which there wasn't.

Yes technically this is an atmosphere, but for practical purposes
it is a vacuum to us.

I'll dig up the calculations.

Bill

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