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Originally Posted by Kullat Nunu
* XO-3b (not yet announced) resembles HAT-2-b in the sense it has an eccentric orbit (e ~ 0.2) and it is very massive (12 MJ, near the brown dwarf border). Since its host star is metal-poor, it is possible that it is actually a brown dwarf.
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Space.com: Oddball Planet Puzzles Astronomers
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A team of amateur and professional astronomers has discovered a mammoth orb more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter that whips around its parent star in fewer than four days and is considered an "oddball" planet among its exoplanet relatives.
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-- Richard Feynman
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