Tuesday, July 3

Smade's Planet

Smade's Planet

Planetary constants:
Diameter 3340 miles
Sidereal day 16.836218 hours

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Smade's Planet is the single companion of Smade's Star, an undistinguished white dwarf in a relatively empty region of space. The native flora is sparse: lichen, moss, primitive vines and palodendron, pelagic algae which tinctured the sea black.



The fauna was even simpler: white worms in the seabottom muck; a few gelatinous creatures which gathered and ingested the black algae in a ludicrously inept fashion; an assortment of simple protozoa.

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- From Popular Handbook to the Planets

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