Subject: Re: What planets are habitable
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In article <C659w7.IyD@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>, loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss) writes:
> In article <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.
>> [deleted]

>>
>    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.
> 

This is the high-school science version; the original Rand study by
Stephen H Dole "Planets for Man" gives the harder numbers & graphs &
such (but predates Michael Hart's (& later) work on continuously 
habitable zones)
