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Message: <blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 5858136" data-attributes="member: 29746">I don't know offhand, nor do I particularly care. The fact is, every body with a temperature above the boiling point of water has a habitable zone, it's just a question of whether a body can exist within said zone in the first place. And effects such as planetary atmosphere and others can change where the "effective" habitable zone lies.I have a lot of time to read at work, and I spend much of it surfing the web- links about exoplanets have been some of my favorite targets in recent years. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Convection, put simply. Convection really does make all the difference. An atmosphere is not a static thing, it's a fluid body that's constantly in motion and changing. That's as true on Titan as it is here, to use a handy example from our own system; you don't see Titan's atmosphere freezing out do you? Sure, it rains methane, but the atmosphere remains gaseous- and quite thick too, given the moon's low gravity.But try some of these links on for size. This is just a selection of stuff I found with a quick Google search; there's been a lot more published on topics like this recently.<a href="http://www.space.com/14659-red-dwarf-stars-planets-habitable-zones.html" target="_blank">Link 1</a><a href="http://www.space.com/6560-life-thrive-red-dwarf-star.html" target="_blank">Link 2</a><a href="http://www.as.utexas.edu/astronomy/education/spring02/scalo/heath.pdf" target="_blank">Link 3 (PDF)</a> (This one's an actual scientific paper published in 1998 or 99, as far as I can tell.)I'll also quote from the third link, the paper:True enough.Side thought on that point; did you read about the "diamond planet" recently found in orbit around a neutron star, apparently the end result of a gas giant that had its atmosphere stripped away by the supernova? No way such a body could have life as we understand it of course, but wow would that be a cool setting for a world of Earth/mineral elementals!</blockquote>

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