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From: kcarroll@utzoo.UUCP (Kieran A. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Terraforming?  Astroforming! - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 11-Jan-84 12:38:34 EST
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   From what I remember, the large amount of radiation near Jupiter
comes not as direct radiation from the planet, but as high-energy
particles trapped in Jupiter's version of Earth's van Allen belts.
Only the very close satellites (perhaps only the closest one?) are
affected by these particles; the outer satellites experience little
more than solar and cosmic radiation.  If Jove were to be ignited,
making it an almost-failed star, the outer satellites might then receive
enough heat to make them comfortable.  Extra radiation from Jupiter's
interior nuclear processes would increase the radiation environment
of these satellites, but this might be compensated for by the growth
of atmospheres about them, or at least about the icy ones.
   While I've made this sound authoritative, it isn't; it's merely
speculation, based on what I remember of the Voyager data.

-Kieran A. Carroll
...decvax!utzoo!kcarroll