I created this by smashing particles together, creating various gases and lots of PLUT/URAN/POLO. Then, I put stone , water, and sand over it, and cooled the space around it. The temperature of the planet is ~70C, and it quickly falls off when in space.
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Note: Covered the planet in ice, superheated some of it, caused a small explosion, sent some water into orbit. I counted it, and most of the water orbited 5 - 10 times before the orbit decayed enough to sent it back to the planet.
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Update: Replaced stone with brick.
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It goes from exploding planet to star-like object in maybe 10-15 seconds, and from star-like object to pile of lava in another 5 to 10 seconds, since at some point, the explosion stops happening.
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Occasionally, it'll burp out chunks of lava or radioactive material, like a little star. I'm dumping nerd-speak right here, but I think it's really cool what can arise from some sand and plutonium.
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I found a really cool side effect of this: If you cause a nuclear explosion with a high enough yield on the planet's surface, it'll kickstart an irreversible reaction that melts the planet's surface and cause higher rates of fission in the core of the planet, which provides just enough force to suspend the melted layer of the planet's former surface above the core.