Comment by Mistletoe
If it was in the sun it would be incinerated and in the shade it would freeze right?
If it was in the sun it would be incinerated and in the shade it would freeze right?
Depending on how rich in internal radioactive sources of heat it isn't scale free with mass. Larger masses of the same makeup will reach different thermal equilibrium since the surface area grows at a slower rate than the internal heat production from decay which scales with mass.
I don't know if it is significant, but tidal sources of heat might not scale the same either.
The other side would radiate, losing the heat. Earth, being in a similar position, is neither incinerated nor refrigerated, though different sides of it can be hot or cold.