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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

postheadericon Super Earths may actually be mini-Neptunes

12:34 PM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

Comparative sizes of Earth and a 'super-Earth' (Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))



Over the past two decades, nearly 900 planets have been identified outside our solar system with thousands of candidates to consider . Among the most exciting of these exoplanets are called "super-Earths" - planets slightly larger than Earth, however, some of them may be able to support life. Unfortunately, a team led by Helmut Lammer in the Space Research Institute (IWF) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has produced new models indicate that some of these super-Earths can really be mini-Neptune, with a deep, rich envelopes hydrogen covering a small rocky core ... Continue reading super-Earths might actually be mini-Neptunes


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science and the education
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  • Exoplanets, Space, super-Earth

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