Space

Life on a Donut Planet

We’re used to talking about planets as spherical objects, but a donut-shaped planet is theoretically possible. What would life be like on one of these?

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Sources:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/what-would-the-earth-be-like-if-it-was-the-shape-of-a-d-1515700296
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974ApJ…190..675W
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/184/1041
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/184/1041
http://www.science20.com/robert_inventor/so_you_thought_you_knew_what_spinning_planets_look_like_surprising_shapes_of_rapidly_spinning_planets-155538

Images:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torus1.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunkin-Donuts-Chocolate-Sprinkled.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protoplanetary-disk.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Africa_and_Europe_from_a_Million_Miles_Away.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA18469-AsteroidCollision-NearStarNGC2547-ID8-2013.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NGC_4414_(NASA-med).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glazed-Donut.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_apsidal_precession.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moon_Farside_LRO.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist%27s_concept_of_the_Solar_System_as_viewed_from_Sedna.jpg

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