Re: An Earth-size planet is careening untethered through the galaxy,

On 31/10/2020 13.47, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Michael F. Stemper <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 30/10/2020 17.43, a425couple wrote:
>>> What Sci-Fi books have involved a planet that is free
>>> and unteathered to any sun / star?

>> Several of the Lensman novels portrayed the Galactic Patrol
>> using planets as weapons. I don't think that Our Historian
>> ever said where they came from.
> 
> That's the easiest thing to answer, based on what we know now.
> There are rogue planets all over the cosmos, it seems.  Consider
> 'Oumuamua, which is even shaped like a projectile.

But I don't think Smith said that. In the Lensiverse, our galaxy
and Lundmark's Nebula only had more than a handful of planets because
they had "recently" passed through each other, edge-on.

> think it got near a star on one of those hyperbolic passes,
> melted, and was stretched out by the star's gravity before
> escaping.  There's an early Niven story in which the same thing
> nearly happens to the protagonist; I forget its title but I bet
> somebody can supply it.)

"Neutron Star", which was our introduction to Beowulf Shaeffer.


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Michael F. Stemper
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