gas giant
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[編輯]源自 gas + giant、由美國的科幻小說作家James Blish造出,此詞最早出現在1952年,源於1941年短篇小說《Solar Plexus》的重寫版本。[1][2]
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[編輯]gas giant (複數 gas giants)
- (天文學) 氣態巨行星
- 1954, James Blish, 「Solar Plexus」, 出自 Beyond Human Ken, Random House,頁號 106:
- A quick glance over the boards revealed that there was a magnetic field of some strength near by, one that didn't belong to the invisible gas giant revolving half a million miles away.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC,PC,幕:Altanorch:
- Altanorch is a small but typical hydrogen-helium gas giant with no outstanding features. Its combination of strong magnetic field and relatively shallow gravity well make it a popular "stopover" world for discharging FTL drive cores.
- 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, 「Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?」, 出自 American Scientist, 卷 101, 期 3,頁號 184:
- In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.
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[編輯]- dwarf planet
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