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

A

Achilles (a.k.a. Anacreon A IV) - Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe

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

Anacreon A IV (a.ka. Achilles) - Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe

Anacreon A V (a.k.a. Priam) - Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe

[http://asimov.wikia.com/wiki/Anacreon Anacreon A VI (a.k.a. Helen) - Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe

Asagarth - Colin Harvey's brilliant novel Winter Song

B

Bandicoot - Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen's novel Heaven, brief reference, p. 20

Bespin - Star Wars universe

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

C

Calpurnia - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Chronos - Poul Anderson's novel Murkheim

Cornelia - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

D

Delta Karpis VII - Jack McDevitt's novel Polaris

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

E

Elpinor (superifically) - John C. Wright's short story "The Far End of History" in The New Space Opera 2'

Endor - Star Wars Universe

G

Gatewood - Wil McCarthy's novel Lost in Translation

H

Heinlein - Firefly/Serenity universe

Helen (a.k.a. Anacreon A VI) - Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe

I

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

J

Julia - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

L

Lepidus - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

O

Orotund - John C. Wright's short story "The Far End of History" in The New Space Opera 2'

P

Polarfrey - Doctor Who universe

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

Pompey - Poul Anderson's A World Named Cleopatra

Priam (a.k.a. Anacreon A V) - Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe

T

Taloraan - Star Wars universe

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

U

Udaspri (ringed planet) - John Scalzi's Old Man's War, brief reference p. 186

V

V'Harant (Gas Giant) - Michael Cobley's Humanity's Fire series, Seeds of Fire

Valhalla - Colin Harvey's novel Winter Song

Y

Yavin Prime - Star Wars universe

Z

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.