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Old 05-August-2009, 03:52 AM
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"Terrestrial" planet possibly discovered. CoRoT-7b has been constrained to have a radius of only 1.68 +/- 0.09 RE. Given that p=0.85 days a small gas giant would not survive long so it is likely a mostly solid body. So far the mass has only been constrained as <21ME
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