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From: corwin@hope.UUCP (John Kempf)
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Subject: Re: Dysan spheres...
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Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 21:12:33 EST
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> To talk about intermediate structures between a dyson sphere and 
> a planet,  how many "earth"s could we put in orbit 93 million miles away 
> from the sun before gravitational effects makes the whole structure
> unstable?  This is a much smaller scale construction project than a Dyson 
> sphere with many of the advantages and it lacks certain of the problems
> (namely all the "earth"s will have a real night and so on).

As far as the number of planets, as long as they were in a kempler rosette,
the only limiting factor should be tidal locking of the planets to each other.
If you were to go that far, it would probably be easier to create a ringworld.
anybody else out there have any ideas?
-cory