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    Sudarsky classification as used in Celestia. Sudarsky's classification of gas giants for the purpose of predicting their appearance based on their temperature...
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    Chthonian planet Planet Nine Planetary system Stellification Sudarsky's gas giant classification Terrestrial planet Tyche (hypothetical planet) Burgasser...
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    science fiction § Planet types Stellar classification Sub-Neptune Substellar object Sudarsky's gas giant classification The terms "inferior planet" and "superior...
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  • planets. The Uranus-mass planet may be a chthonian planet, the core of a gas giant which has had its outer layers stripped away by stellar radiation. Alternatively...
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    and Characterization of the Protoplanet HD 100546 b—Direct Evidence for Gas Giant Planet Formation at 50 AU". The Astrophysical Journal. 807 (1): 64. arXiv:1412...
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    Exoplanet System Science Planets in globular clusters Small planet radius gap Sudarsky's gas giant classification Discoveries of exoplanets Search projects...
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    55 Cancri in May 2044. 58 Cancri, or Rho2 Cancri (ρ2 Cnc) Sudarsky's gas giant classification Cancer in Chinese astronomy Kepler-186 Lists of exoplanets...
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    is a torus, pancake or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a...
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    would be made of frozen volatiles, substances which would be liquids or gases on Earth: water, ammonia, methane and nitrogen would all be frozen solid...
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    way to predict the appearance of a gas giant is the Sudarsky's gas giant classification. But this classification scheme is over two decades old and more...
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    such a disruption may be the production of excessive amounts of related gas, dust and debris, which may eventually surround the parent star in the form...
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  • formation of these clouds were theorized earlier in the Sudarsky's gas giant classification. After some candidates were proposed in 2010 and 2011, a...
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  • Stellar and Substellar Companions to Solar-Like Stars from Marvels. Vi. A Giant Planet and a Brown Dwarf Candidate in a Close Binary System Hd 87646". The...
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    Exoplanet System Science Planets in globular clusters Small planet radius gap Sudarsky's gas giant classification Discoveries of exoplanets Search projects...
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    considering a circular orbit with 2000 AU as the semi-major axis. It is a gas giant located in the constellation of Pisces, 155 light-years from the Solar...
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    Exoplanet System Science Planets in globular clusters Small planet radius gap Sudarsky's gas giant classification Discoveries of exoplanets Search projects...
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  • David Sudarsky is an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona. He is primarily known for producing the first exoplanet classification system, which...
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    Pollux b (category Giant planets)
    (constellation) – Obsolete constellation inside modern Gemini Sudarsky's gas giant classification A. P. Hatzes; et al. (2006). "Confirmation of the planet...
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    Kepler-1647b (category Giant planets in the habitable zone)
    Kepler light-curve, which showed the planet in transit. The exoplanet is a gas giant, similar in size to Jupiter, and has an orbital period of 1107 days. This...
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    increased to 9.91±1.61 ME, resulting in it likely being a Neptune-like ice giant planet. The planet has been referred to as Hoth due to its resemblance (before...
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  • Exoplanet System Science Planets in globular clusters Small planet radius gap Sudarsky's gas giant classification Discoveries of exoplanets Search projects...
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    Clarkson, Will (2004), "On detecting terrestrial planets with timing of giant planet transits"; 2004 arXiv: 0412032; 2005 MNRAS 359 567. "Spitzer Space...
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    b, each of the directly imaged worlds previously discovered had been gas giants many times the mass of Jupiter. The planet has a mass at least 2.6MJ,...
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  • org. Retrieved 10 November 2017. Bartels, Meghan (7 November 2017). "A Giant Exoplanet Is Hiding At The Center of the Milky Way Galaxy". Newsweek. Retrieved...
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  • Exoplanet System Science Planets in globular clusters Small planet radius gap Sudarsky's gas giant classification Discoveries of exoplanets Search projects...
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    satellite. The temperature range of a moon that is tidally locked to a gas giant could be less extreme than with a planet locked to a star. Even though...
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