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From: mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter)
Subject: Re: What planets are habitable
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Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK
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Date: Sun, 2 May 1993 13:02:31 GMT
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<C659w7.IyD@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>, loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss) writes:

><JPG.93Apr27135219@holly.bnr.co.uk> jpg@bnr.co.uk (Jonathan P. Gibbons) writes:
>
>>I would appreciate any thoughts on what makes a planet habitable for Humans.
>>I am making asumptions that life and a similar atmosphere evolve given a range
>>of physical aspects of the planet.  The question is what physical aspects
>>simply disallow earth like conditions.
>
>    Dandridge Cole and Isaac Asimov collaborated on a book titled,
> "Habitable Planets for Man" (I think) in 1964.  It should be available
> in most good libraries, or through inter-library loan.

Some more references:

S.H. Dole

"Habitable Planets for Man"
Blaisdell Publishing Company, New York (1964)

I don't know if this can be found any more.

M.J. Fogg

"Extra-Solar Planetary Systems: A Microcomputer Simulation"
J. Brit. Interplanetary. Soc., _38_, 501-514, (1985)

"An Estimate of the Prevalence of Biocompatible and Habitable Planets"
J. Brit. Interplanetary. Soc., _45_, 3-12, (1992)

The first paper includes a detailed discussion of the physical conditions
for habitability.

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