Timeline for How to know if an exoplanet is terrestrial?
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| Aug 30, 2022 at 14:35 | answer | added | ProfRob | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 14:18 | comment | added | ProfRob | It has nothing to do with density directly. Gas giant planets and terrestrial planets can have the same density. Gas giants have much larger mass. Indeed surface gravity is a much better discriminator. Terrestrial planets have low surface gravity. | |
| Aug 30, 2022 at 13:26 | comment | added | Abdul Muhaymin -Free Palestine | So, it is all about density! I wonder what prevents the existence of gas or ice planets with mass and size similar to Earth. Gravity!? | |
| Aug 29, 2022 at 14:40 | comment | added | ProfRob | See the plot in astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/8440/… for the potential design of a metric to determine what is terrestrial. Only works if you have the mass and radius though. | |
| Aug 28, 2022 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAstronomy/status/1563723182774915072 | ||
| Aug 27, 2022 at 8:54 | history | asked | Abdul Muhaymin -Free Palestine | CC BY-SA 4.0 |