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To: Red Badger

I’m struggling with this article. It states “8.6 times as massive as Earth”. Saturn is ~9x Earth, and Neptune is ~4X Earth, so I don’t understand why they call this one a sub-Neptune planet.

5 posted on 09/12/2023 11:56:37 AM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)

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To: reed13k

The writer is confusing mass with volume I think................

7 posted on 09/12/2023 11:58:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)

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To: reed13k

Neptune is 17 earth masses.

9 posted on 09/12/2023 12:04:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder

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