Could Bellerophon have no core?

[Keatah]

Could Bellerophon have no core? If this planet is tidally locked.. And orbits close enough that the iron surface is constantly boiled off from the hot side and re-condenses or percipitates out on the cold side. Wouldn't the side with all the condensing material build up a lot of material and eventually keep on sinking through the "core" and eventually pushing it up and out on the hot side?

Or might it become "top heavy" in relation to the star it orbits and all of a sudden swing around and keep repeating this. Thus having a rotation that isn't a rotation, but instead an oscillation?

Stranger things await us when Webb comes online I bet..

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Pegasi_b"]51 Pegasi b - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM2d5aSV3HA

 

[statickid]

If its dense enough to hold its bloated atmosphere, then its gravity would no doubt be strong enough to form a core in the middle if only through compression.

 

[Keatah]

If material was boiled off from the hot side, and recondenses on the cool side in the form of iron rain.. wouldn't that make for one hella buildup of material and throw the planet out of balance?

 

[Ghostrider]

Planets today have no core.

 

[mojoey]

It's actually a prototype Dyson Sphere

 

[statickid]

If material was boiled off from the hot side, and recondenses on the cool side in the form of iron rain.. wouldn't that make for one hella buildup of material and throw the planet out of balance?

No more than our rain builds up the land.

If its hot enough to vaporize iron on one side of the planet, and has a big insulating atmosphere, the iron would likely be hot enough to flow on the side it was raining.

 

[RisingFury]

No, it can't not have a core. Even if it's hot enough to evaporate significant amount of iron, even if iron is present at the surface in significant quantities, which is unlikely, even if there is a transport mechanism that would dump all that iron on the other side where it'd solidify, iron still isn't strong enough to not collapse.