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Spent the past several hours trying to make a "simple" model for what kinds of gasses can exist in a planetary atmosphere. This only models Jeans escape; solar wind erosion is a lot more complicated and isn't modeled, so just because a planet could retain water doesn't mean that it does (Venus, Mars).
Some things I learned:
- Mass has a much stronger effect on atmospheric retention than insolation (temperature)
- It's pretty rare for a planet with less than 1e23kg of mass to have a significant atmosphere
- A planet doesn't need to be much more massive than Earth to enter gas giant territory
- I had to cheese this model a bit to allow Titan to retain methane, despite the fact that it does IRL
they making a new pokemon type called Dyke
ultimate male living space vs. ultimate female living space