It is worth noting that if the buoyancy effects of the thermal
atmosphere were negligible, the bound (16
) also would not be sufficient to ensure the validity of the GSL
for non-spherical bodies: The bound (16
) is formulated in terms of the ``circumscribing radius'', i.e.,
the
largest
linear dimension, whereas if buoyancy effects were negligible,
then to enforce the GSL one would need a bound of the form (16
) with
R
being the
smallest
linear dimension.