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  • The ship had survived a 230-year voyage from Earth, but it was meant to travel between the stars, not to linger in high orbit around a planet-sized moon of a superjovian.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • What they had to do was disassemble a * dozen* Jupiters, or a superjovian planet a dozen times Jupiter's mass.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • What they had to do was disassemble a * dozen* Jupiters, or a superjovian planet a dozen times Jupiter's mass.

    The Ringworld Engineers Niven, Larry 1980

  • "At any rate, several large moons orbit the superjovian, and one of them is capable of supporting human life.

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • Yet there's a superjovian gas giant located about two AUs from the primary, one about three and a half times the size of Jupiter ... "

    A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997

  • Closer in, even a superjovian would have been cooked down to the bare metal-as happened when the sun detonated.ā€

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

  • However, you know giants can be partners in multiple star systems, and sometimes the difference between partners is quite Iā€ tt8e ā€” So, after I was alerted to the idea that it might happen, and a program which investigated the possibility in detail, I that, yes, under special conditions, a double can form in one member is a large sun and one a superjovian planet.

    The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978

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