A New Family of Planets ? "Ocean Planets"

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19 August 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0308324

Abstract

A new family of planets is considered which is between rochy terrestrial planets and gaseous giant ones: "Ocean-Planets". We present the possible formation, composition and internal models of these putative planets, including that of their ocean, as well as their possible Exobiology interest. These planets should be detectable by planet detection missions such as Eddington and Kepler, and possibly COROT (lauch scheduled in 2006). They would be ideal targets for spectroscopic missions such as Darwin/TPF.

Keywords

DETECTABLE BY PLANET
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
ROCHY TERRESTRIAL
FAMILY OF PLANETS
OCEAN PLANETS
NEW FAMILY
SCHEDULED
MISSIONS

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