Terrestrial planets and hot jupiters

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Terrestrial planets and hot jupiters

Post #1by Hamiltonian » 11.08.2005, 08:30

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Post #3by Spaceman Spiff » 11.08.2005, 11:56

Smashing! Medal-for-contributions-to-Celestia stuff!

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Post #4by Hamiltonian » 11.08.2005, 16:13


Thanks.
That list contains two papers from a series of three by Barnes & Raymond, entitled Predicting planets in known extra-solar planetary systems ... One deals with test particles and the other with terrestrial planets. If like me you wondered what the missing paper was about, it discusses Saturn-mass objects, and it's at:
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0404/0404211.pdf
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Post #5by Spaceman Spiff » 11.08.2005, 18:46

These papers seem to show that terrestrial planets might likely typically have much more water than Earth. So much so, that oceans tens of kilometres deep and no continents might be the norm. Could this be another factor in solving the Fermi paradox?

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Post #6by brunetto_64 » 12.08.2005, 07:03

maybe... :lol:


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