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mega-Earth

(rocky planet ten times the size of Earth)

The term Mega-Earth has been used for a rocky planet (extra-solar planet) substantially larger than Earth, i.e., an especially large super-Earth. Typically-used minimum criteria are on the order of ten Earth masses. The first planets to fit this description were found by Kepler. The term was likely coined when rocky planets of unprecedented mass and volume were discovered.


(planet type,exoplanets)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-Earth
https://www.sci.news/astronomy/science-kepler10c-mega-earth-01961.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017LPI....48.1078F/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018LPI....49.1224F/abstract

Referenced by pages:
extra-solar planet
planet type
rocky planet

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