Gas Giant

Gas Giant

Gas Giant's, also known as Jovian planets after the planet Jupiter, are large planets not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter. Planets above 10 Earth masses are termed giant planets. There are four gas giants in our Solar System: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Many extrasolar gas giants have been identified orbiting other stars.

List of Fictional Gas Giants Named in Science Fiction

Aplu - David L. Clements' "A War of Stars" short story in Analog January/February 2010.

Asagarth - Colin Harvey's Winter Song

Bespin - Star Wars universe

Big Ben - Peter Watts's novel Blightsight, p. 54

Calpurnia - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Chronos - Poul Anderson's novel Murkheim

Cornelia - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Delta Karpis VII - Jack McDevitt's novel Polaris

Djiminid - Iain Banks's novel The Algebraist, p. 382

Endor - Star Wars Universe

Heinlein - [[Firefly/Serenity universe

Icelanize - Peter F. Hamilton's Pandora's Star, p. 290

Julia - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Lepidus - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Polyphemus (SF planet) - (Gas Giant with a single moon) - Ken Macleod's Newton's Wake: A Space Opera, p. 29

Pompey - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Taloraan - Star Wars universe

Thrym (inhabited) - Poul Anderson's The Long Way Home

Tl'ho - Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner's novel Destroyer of Worlds, Ringworld universe

Valhalla - Colin Harvey's Winter Song

Yavin Prime - Star Wars universe

Zurnl III - Donald Kingsbury's Psychohistorical Crisis (set in Asimov's Foundation universe), p. 268

List of Real Gas Giants

• Jupiter
• CoRoT-2b

Links

• Planets in Science Fiction

External Links Science Fiction

• Memory Alpha

External Links Science

• TrES-2b A world so inexplicably dark that it seems like an artifact.