(August 25, 2016 at 3:29 am)Alex K Wrote:(August 25, 2016 at 1:35 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: There's no mention of its possible mass in the articles I've read, but it seems to me that orbiting so close, and so quickly, it cannot have that much to it -- meaning it might have trouble retaining an atmosphere.
M>1.3 Earth masses, strictly speaking 1.3/Sin a where a is the angle of the ecliptic as seen from eartg
So then atmospheric heat-retention is a possibility. Thanks for the noodly-headed stuff.