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Questions on astronomical objects orbiting a star massive enough to be rounded, not massive enough to cause fusion, and which have cleared its orbit of planetesimals.

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Factors included in the average density of planets

When the average density for a planet is stated does it incorporate the mass of the atmosphere, when a planet has an atmosphere, or is the mass of the atmosphere ignored? …
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Can fish and other sea creatures survive in watery planets like Neptune or any other planets...

Being an ice giant, there is no water on the surface of Neptune. Having a surface temperature of $-201$ $^oC$ any water on Neptune will be frozen. Extraterrestrial liquid water is believed to be benea …
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Is there any "scale" for measuring salinity of extraterrestrial water?

I am assuming you are asking about measuring the salinity of water remotely, which would exclude landing a probe to directly measure the salinity of water on a celestial body. The remote measuring of …
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Life forms on planets not requiring water and oxygen as basic building blocks

The very short answer is, we don't know. Our only experience of life is what we have discovered on Earth. All life on Earth is based around RNA and DNA. RNA has been discovered in meteors and elsewher …
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Could a magnetosphere be created for Venus by recreated by spinning-up the planet to a 24 ho...

That’s because Venus doesn’t have a planet wide magnetic field like the Earth. It’s believed that the Earth’s magnetic field is generated by the convection of liquid in the Earth’s core. … This might have led to a reduced heat flux through the crust, trapping the heat inside the planet. …
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