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KEPLER's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b
Natalie M. Batalha, William J. Borucki, Stephen T. Bryson +49
NASA's Kepler Mission uses transit photometry to determine the frequency of earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone of Sun-like stars. The mission reached a milestone towa…
Collisional Stripping and Disruption of Super-Earths
Robert A. Marcus, Sarah T. Stewart, Dimitar Sasselov +1
The final stage of planet formation is dominated by collisions between planetary embryos. The dynamics of this stage determine the orbital configuration and the mass and compositio…
HAT-P-12b: A Low-Density Sub-Saturn Mass Planet Transiting a Metal-Poor K Dwarf
J. D. Hartman, G. Á. Bakos, G. Torres +18
We report on the discovery of HAT-P-12b, a transiting extrasolar planet orbiting the moderately bright V=12.8 K4 dwarf GSC 03033-00706, with a period P = 3.2130598 +- 0.0000021 d,…