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Jinx is a fictional world in Larry Niven's Known Space stories. The world is a satellite of a gas giant named Binary in the Sirius A system, and is home to a human colony. One of the more unusual planets, it has been pulled by tidal forces into a prolate spheroid (a.k.a. a rugby-ball or egg-shape). The extreme variations in altitude caused by this unusual shape have resulted in five distinct environmental zones. Along the meridian, where the atmosphere is thickest, runs a narrow band of high... full article at wikipedia
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