If I could have my own planet it would be about the size of Earth, orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. Why a red dwarf? Well for one they have a pretty red color. But, more importantly they live a really really long time. They are the longest living stars, and can live for billions of years! (The Sun will have a lifetime of 10 billion years but that is nothing compared to a red dwarf!). The planet would have to be fairly close to the parent star – red dwarfs are colder than our Sun and I would want my planet to have liquid water (I personally get very thirsty and apparently water is essential to life as we know it!).
The planet’s name would be Demeter (after the Greek goddess of the harvest and fertile Earth) with the hope that it would be a bountiful planet (really that’s just the first greek goddess that came up in google that I didn’t already identify with a stellar object! – I’d have to think on the name some more).
As far as the life that would live there … that’s the tough part!! I would hope it would be extremely diverse. Since nature is far more creative than I, I think what I would ideally do is drop off a few microbes, and then come back in several billion years and see what happened. Here on Earth we started from just a small population of single celled organisms some 3.5 billion years ago and look at all that has happened!! I could never paint a world as beautiful as this on my own, so I’d cheat a little and let evolution and time help me out.! ;)
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