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Polluted White Dwarfs Reveal Exotic Mantle Rock Types on Exoplanets in our Solar Neighborhood
Keith D. Putirka, Siyi Xu
Prior studies have hypothesized that some polluted white dwarfs record continent-like granitic crust--which is abundant on Earth and perhaps uniquely indicative of plate tectonics.…
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Compositional Diversity of Rocky Exoplanets
Keith Putirka, Caroline Dorn, Natalie Hinkel +1
Star compositions are essential for examining densities and compositional ranges of rocky exoplanets, testing their similarity to Earth. Stellar elemental abundances and planetary…