• Question: What is the biggest planet you've ever made?

    Asked by Phoebe to Stefan on 12 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Stefan Lines

      Stefan Lines answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      Hi Phoebe. My planets aren’t that big, because I’m mainly interested in forming rocky, terrestrial planets. Anything above 10 times the size of our Earth starts rapidly accreting gas onto it (like Jupiter did to become a gas giant). Unfortunately our models don’t take gas accretion into account just yet. So I’d say they were all Earth size or smaller.

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