Please post your squishy Gas Giants here!

[Baxder]

Many of us have come across egg-shaped Gas Giants of various classes, and it appears that no serious effort has been undertaken to define the parameters that cause such phenomena. This is a fledgling effort to do so.

I'm attempting to come up with the criteria for what makes an "oblate" Gas Giant, as a matter of scientific curiosity and to create a custom criteria for Observatory since they are always good for an interesting photo.

So if you could please post a screenshot and list your squishy Gas Giants' class, radius and rotational period, I'm sure we can get to the slightly oblong bottom of this curiosity!

 

[Zieman]

Heres' a couple of oblate ones and one not at all oblate for your research:

 

[Baxder]

Looks like there could be an upper limit for mass/gravity. I recently saw a 777 EM with 5.3 gravity that was oblated with a radius of 77000 km and rotational period of .4d. I was surprised it was still misshapen with that mass and gravity.

 

[Baxder]

If you have any interest in this topic, check this out!

 

[Eahlstan]

 

[GroG79]

 

[Eahlstan]

 

[Chrismasterski]

 

[Eahlstan]

Some more from today's session.

 

[Carlos Sagan]

 

[The Funkiest Commander]

Speed of rotation, maybe? Centripetal force etc?

 

[Mooing]