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Work Package 8: Planetary Physics Studies Dave Latham (SAO) & Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard) Li Zeng (Harvard grad student) Xavier Dumusque (PostDoc)

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1 Work Package 8: Planetary Physics Studies Dave Latham (SAO) & Dimitar Sasselov (Harvard) Li Zeng (Harvard grad student) Xavier Dumusque (PostDoc)

2 Mass-Radius Diagram

3 Welcome to Astrozeng.com! ★ New Interactive Tool Help You Plot Your New Planet on Mass-Radius Diagram: Click HERE. (Wolfram CDF Player Required ) Download the mass-radius plot in postscript (eps) format: Click Her e. ★ Interactive Tool to Calculate and Illustrate the Interior Structure of 3-layer Exoplanet Models: Click HERE. (See Details in Exoplanet Models, Wolfram CDF Player Require d). Li Zeng, and Dimitar Sasselov. "A Detailed Model Grid for Solid Planets from 0.1 through 100 Earth Masses". In the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP), Chicago Journals, Volume 125, No. 925, pp. 227-239, March 2013.

4 Kepler-10b: Same density as Earth, not as dry

5 Kepler-10c: Iron core, rocky mantle, plenty of water

6 Mass-Radius Diagram

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