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  1. thenewenlightenmentage: New Ultradense Planet Found; Astronomers Baffled Rachel Kaufman for National Geographic News Published February 22, 2012 A newly discovered planet 4,000 light-years away is just too dense. Dubbed CoRoT-20b, the planet is thought to be a gas giant about four-fifths the size of Jupiter and orbits close to a sunlike star. Despite the new planet’s relatively diminutive size, this world has four times Jupiter’s mass, making CoRoT-20b one of the densest known planets, a new study says. (Related: “‘Backward’ Planet Has Density of Foam Coffee Cups.”) That poses a problem for astronomers: If CoRoT-20b is structured like a traditional gas giant, with a solid core surrounded by a gassy atmosphere, the planet’s core would have to make up 50 to 77 percent of the world’s total mass. By contrast, Jupiter’s core is thought to represent just 15 percent of that planet’s mass. Read More

    thenewenlightenmentage:

    New Ultradense Planet Found; Astronomers Baffled

    Rachel Kaufman

    for National Geographic News

    Published February 22, 2012

    A newly discovered planet 4,000 light-years away is just too dense.

    Dubbed CoRoT-20b, the planet is thought to be a gas giant about four-fifths the size of Jupiter and orbits close to a sunlike star.

    Despite the new planet’s relatively diminutive size, this world has four times Jupiter’s mass, making CoRoT-20b one of the densest known planets, a new study says. (Related: “‘Backward’ Planet Has Density of Foam Coffee Cups.”)

    That poses a problem for astronomers: If CoRoT-20b is structured like a traditional gas giant, with a solid core surrounded by a gassy atmosphere, the planet’s core would have to make up 50 to 77 percent of the world’s total mass.

    By contrast, Jupiter’s core is thought to represent just 15 percent of that planet’s mass.

    Read More

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