Re: An Earth-size planet is careening untethered through the galaxy,
[email protected] (Dorothy J Heydt)
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In article <[email protected]>, Michael F. Stemper <[email protected]> wrote: >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. > Thanks. I should've remembered that; but it's been decades. -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/