Lazarus
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 | | Subject: Oceans on super-Earths 6th January 2015, 4:01 pm | |
| Schaefer & Sasselov "The persistence of oceans on Earth-like planets: insights from the deep-water cycle" http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00735Predicting the formation times and lifetimes of oceans on super-Earth planets up to 5 Earth masses. The most massive planets take longer to form their oceans, while smaller planets tend to return the water to the mantle faster. See also the associated news release. | |
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Stalker
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| | Subject: Re: Oceans on super-Earths 6th January 2015, 5:13 pm | |
| Implying the super-earth isnt gazeous... _________________  | |
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Lazarus
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| | Subject: Re: Oceans on super-Earths 6th January 2015, 5:16 pm | |
| Well so far it looks like you can get Earth-like compositions up to around 6 Earth masses...  | |
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tommi59
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| | Subject: Re: Oceans on super-Earths 8th January 2015, 7:20 pm | |
| Kepler 10 c has little more  | |
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Lazarus
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| | Subject: Re: Oceans on super-Earths 9th January 2015, 3:29 am | |
| Kepler-10c is not a terrestrial planet though. | |
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tommi59
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| | Subject: Re: Oceans on super-Earths 9th January 2015, 6:48 am | |
| But is currently largest rocky super earth with possible oceans might be little too warm  and some k 52 b,c,d and 57b next in queue | |
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