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Description	Reproduction of diagrams by Hal Clement, originally published in his article "Whirligig World", Astounding Science Fiction, June 1953. Top: Diagram of the cross-sectional shape of Mesklin, with approximate values for the effective surface gravity at various latitudes (in multiples of Earth gravity). The dashed lines are polar circles. The shaded circle in the middle represents the size of Earth on the same scale. Bottom: Diagram of Mesklin's orbit, with approximate isotherms and times of crossing them.
Author or copyright owner	Hal Clement
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	https://books.google.com/books?id=z7iaZENKoV4C&pg=PA40
Date of publication	1953
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Mesklin
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	Illustration of the peculiar properties of the fictional planet Mesklin.
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