Two planets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope orbiting the star Kepler-36 that come to with in 1.2 million miles every 97 days. One is a so called "super-Earth" and the other is a gaseous planet about the size of
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Amazingly Close Planets Challenges Planet Formation Theory
Amazingly Close Planets Found orbiting Kepler-36
Two planets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope orbiting the star Kepler-36 that come to with in 1.2 million miles every 97 days. One is a so called "super-Earth" and the other is a gaseous planet about the size ofNeptune 30 times closer than any planets our solar system.
What makes this a particular challenge for naturalistic planet formation is that
one has a density similar to Earth and the other has a density similar to that
of Saturn. This will likely force yet another reworking of both planet
formation and migration theories.
Two planets discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope orbiting the star Kepler-36 that come to with in 1.2 million miles every 97 days. One is a so called "super-Earth" and the other is a gaseous planet about the size of
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