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More Incredible Diversity of Planets pointing towards DESIGN
"The newly-discovered planets orbit TOI-216, a star about 87% the Sun’s mass and 84% its diameter.
Also known as TIC 55652896 or GAIA DR2 4664811297844004352, the star is about 583 light-years away.
One of the new planets, named TOI-216b, is approximately 8.2
times Earth’s size and 26 times its mass.
It circles its parent star every 17 days at a distance of only 0.13 AU (one-third the distance between the Sun and Mercury).
This means the planet is heated intensely by the star, and has a surface temperature around 675 degrees Fahrenheit (357 degrees Celsius).
The second planet, TOI-216c, is 190 times more massive than the Earth and 11.3 times larger.
It is almost two times farther from the star (0.2 AU) than TOI-216b and has a surface temperature around 435 degrees Fahrenheit (224 degrees Celsius). A year on this planet is 34.6 days long.
“The TOI-216 planetary system displays some close similarities to the Kepler-9 system, but is 1.6 magnitudes brighter,” said lead author Dr. David Kipping.
“In both cases, one finds low-density gas giants in a 2:1 mean motion resonance orbiting a Sun-like star at similar periods (20 and 40 days). To a lesser degree, the system also resembles KOI-872.”
SciNews
Hebrews 11:3
More Incredible Diversity of Planets pointing towards DESIGN
"The newly-discovered planets orbit TOI-216, a star about 87% the Sun’s mass and 84% its diameter.
Also known as TIC 55652896 or GAIA DR2 4664811297844004352, the star is about 583 light-years away.
One of the new planets, named TOI-216b, is approximately 8.2
It circles its parent star every 17 days at a distance of only 0.13 AU (one-third the distance between the Sun and Mercury).
This means the planet is heated intensely by the star, and has a surface temperature around 675 degrees Fahrenheit (357 degrees Celsius).
The second planet, TOI-216c, is 190 times more massive than the Earth and 11.3 times larger.
It is almost two times farther from the star (0.2 AU) than TOI-216b and has a surface temperature around 435 degrees Fahrenheit (224 degrees Celsius). A year on this planet is 34.6 days long.
“The TOI-216 planetary system displays some close similarities to the Kepler-9 system, but is 1.6 magnitudes brighter,” said lead author Dr. David Kipping.
“In both cases, one finds low-density gas giants in a 2:1 mean motion resonance orbiting a Sun-like star at similar periods (20 and 40 days). To a lesser degree, the system also resembles KOI-872.”
SciNews
