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Seems like huge margin.KristijanT said:So...according to this,under a pressure of 10 bars(9.86923 atm) ammonia should have a boiling point of 25 C.That should be ample for life,right?
Under such pressure you can also expect liquid CO2.
One more thing. You wanted a big planet:
f the radius of our planet were larger, there could be a point at which an Earth escaping rocket could not be built. Let us assume that building a rocket at 96% propellant (4% rocket), currently the limit for just the Shuttle External Tank, is the practical limit for launch vehicle engineering. Let us also choose hydrogen-oxygen, the most energetic chemical propellant known and currently capable of use in a human rated rocket engine. By plugging these numbers into the rocket equation, we can transform the calculated escape velocity into its equivalent planetary radius. That radius would be about 9680 kilometers (Earth is 6670 km). If our planet was 50% larger in diameter, we would not be able to venture into space, at least using rockets for transport.
That was calculated for Earth composition, sure. Your ice ball would be lighter, I assume, nevertheless...
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition30/tryanny.html