Space/Science — HabitableZone

Space/Science » in reply to Something's not right.

Gravitational compression

The materials of which our Earth is made have a "normal" density of 3.4 to 3.5, but the Earth's mean density is about 5.5, due to the pressure of surface layers crushing the inner ones to higher density states.

An "Uber-Planet" would be even more dense...

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