Mini-Neptune
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mini-neptune-163-2635527
title:
Mini-Neptune
text:
A Mini-Neptune is a planet less massive than Neptune but resembling Neptune in that it has a thick hydrogen-helium atmosphere, probably with deep layers of ice, rock or liquid oceans. A gas dwarf is a gas planet with a rocky core that has accumulated a thick envelope of hydrogen, helium, and other volatiles, having, as a result, a total radius between 1.7 and 3.9 Earth radii (1.7–3.9 R🜨). The term is used in a three-tier, metallicity-based classification regime for short-period exoplanets, which
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Planet smaller than Neptune with a gas atmosphere
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-Neptune
date created:
2012-06-14T15:59:23Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:47:32Z
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image:
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fields total:
13
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