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In planets the gravitational potential energy is comparable to the electrostatic potential energy. The central star sends energy and information to the planets around it determining thus their temperature and some of the other conditions necessary for the rocky planets to be candidate cradles of life.
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The surface includes also the main volume of the atmosphere of the planet.
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Economou, E.N. (2011). Planets. In: A Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe. SpringerBriefs in Physics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20089-2_11
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