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Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Using NASA’s exoplanet data not aligning with other data

I’m not sure if I’m maybe reading this data wrong but the planet mass is measured in Jupiter mass. The sun mass data for “eps Eri” looks correct at 0.83 but the planet data “eps Eri b” is way off at 1.55 Jupiter mass vs 0.71 which is displayed online. After checking some other planets some of them are off too, and when dealing with Jupiter mass they can be off by a lot. Ross 128 star and planet Ross 128 b both look like the mass data is correct. Are these really just estimates which is why they fluctuate in mass in terms of the data I find? Or are they updating the data and the other websites have old data?



Submitted January 01, 2019 at 02:04PM by kurotheactivist http://bit.ly/2F1zLq6

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