Could Planet Minecraft Actually Exist?

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Gravitational field of a cubic planet:
Chappell, James Michael, et al. "The gravity field of a cube." Physics International 3.2 (2012): 50.
http://search.proquest.com/openview/6c982d4a364d8b7d7829ec389e2a907e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar
More:
http://www.askamathematician.com/2011/05/q-what-would-earth-be-like-to-us-if-it-were-a-cube-instead-of-spherical-is-this-even-possible/
https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/if-the-earth-were-a-cube/

1884 claim of cubic planet discovery:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE5D91038E033A25755C1A9679D94659FD7CF

Hats off to the Minecraft wiki community at Gamepedia for collecting stats about the Minecraft world!
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Minecraft_Wiki



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