A planetary-mass object (PMO), planemo, or planetary body (sometimes referred to as a world) is, by geophysical definition of celestial objects, any celestial...
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A planetary-mass moon is a planetary-mass object. They are large and ellipsoidal (sometimes spherical) in shape. Moons may be in hydrostatic equilibrium...
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Rogue planet (redirect from Interstellar planetary mass object)
free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which is not gravitationally bound to...
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In astronomy, planetary mass is a measure of the mass of a planet-like astronomical object. Within the Solar System, planets are usually measured in the...
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Cha 1107−7626 (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2008)
planetary-mass object in the Chamaeleon I star-forming region, about 190 parsecs (620 ly) distant from the Solar System. It is the lowest-mass object...
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Dwarf planet (redirect from Planetary dwarf)
dwarf planets and dates of discovery A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally...
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Jupiter-mass Binary Objects or JuMBOs are pairs of interstellar planetary-mass objects. They were discovered in the Orion Nebula Cluster by the James Webb...
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T dwarf (section Planetary-mass objects and exoplanets)
An object with the spectral type T (also called T dwarf or methane brown dwarf) is either a brown dwarf or young free-floating planetary-mass object. A...
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L dwarf (section Planetary-mass objects and exoplanets)
An object with the spectral type L (also called L-dwarf) can be either a low-mass star, a brown dwarf or a young free-floating planetary-mass object. If...
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radii of these objects range over three orders of magnitude, from planetary-mass objects like dwarf planets and some moons to the planets and the Sun. This...
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2M1207b is a planetary-mass object orbiting the brown dwarf 2M1207, in the constellation Centaurus, approximately 170 light-years from Earth. It is one...
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and former stars similar to EF Eridani B, and can also include objects of planetary mass, regardless of their formation mechanism and whether or not they...
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instead becomes a brown dwarf or planetary-mass object. The formation of free-floating brown dwarves and planetary-mass objects by photo-erosion of prestellar...
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SIMP J013656.5+093347 (category 2MASS objects)
SIMP J013656.5+093347 (abbreviated SIMP0136) is a planetary mass object at 19.9 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It belongs to the...
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Sub-brown dwarf (category Planetary-mass objects)
A sub-brown dwarf or planetary-mass brown dwarf is an astronomical object that formed in the same manner as stars and brown dwarfs (i.e. through the collapse...
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OTS 44 (category Free-floating substellar objects)
OTS 44 is a free-floating planetary-mass object or brown dwarf located at 530 light-years (160 pc) in the constellation Chamaeleon near the reflection...
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An object with a spectral type Y (also called Y dwarf) is either a brown dwarf or a free-floating planetary-mass object. They have temperatures below around...
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morpholino oligo, a type of molecule in molecular biology Planetary-mass object, a celestial object of size similar to a planet Prosopometamorphopsia, visual...
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Double planet (section Mass ratios closer to 1)
satellite system where both objects are planets, or planetary-mass objects, and whose barycenter is external to both planetary bodies. Although up to a third...
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Cha 110913−773444 (category Free-floating substellar objects)
J11151597+1937266, a relative nearby planetary-mass object with a disk KPNO-Tau 12, a low-mass brown dwarf or planetary-mass object with a disk Luhman, K. L; Adame...
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CFBDSIR 2149−0403 (category Free-floating substellar objects)
CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9) is a free-floating planetary-mass object or possibly a high-metallicity, low-mass brown dwarf in the constellation Aquarius. Originally...
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(also called 2MASS J1115+1937) is a young isolated planetary-mass object that is surrounded by a planetary disk. 2MASS J1115+1937 was discovered in 2017 in...
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formulated with respect to the center of mass. It is a hypothetical point where the entire mass of an object may be assumed to be concentrated to visualise...
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lists can be sorted according to an object's radius and mass and, for the most massive objects, volume, density, and surface gravity, if these values are...
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KPNO-Tau 12 (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2003)
12 (also called 2MASS J0419012+280248) is a low-mass brown dwarf or free-floating planetary-mass object that is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, actively...
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PSO J318.5−22 (category WISE objects)
PSO J318.5−22 is an extrasolar object of planetary mass that does not orbit a parent star, it is an analog to directly imaged young gas giants. There is...
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WISE 0855−0714 (category Astronomical objects discovered in 2013)
53 °F). It has an estimated mass between 3–10 Jupiter masses, which makes it a planetary-mass object below the 13 Jupiter mass limit for deuterium fusion...
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J1407b (category Planetary rings)
object that eclipsed the star must be substellar in mass (below 80 Jupiter masses), which means it could either be a brown dwarf or a planetary-mass object...
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an age between 1 and 10 Gyrs, the team found a mass of 4–13 MJ, making the object a planetary-mass object. JWST photometry confirmed the red color by measuring...
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Brown dwarf (redirect from Planetary-mass brown dwarf)
substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars. Their mass is approximately...
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