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1 month ago6 times larger but 80 times as massive?
Per the paper the 6(.41) is indeed referring to the radius. Volume scales as R^3, so if the density of this planet and the earth were the same we would expect the mass to be 263 times as large as Earth’s.
Neptune, for instance, is 3.8 time Earth’s radius, and 17 times its mass instead of 54.9 time its mass as you might naively expect from the radius.
These ratios (54.9/17 vs 263/80) are almost the same. So the new planet is about as dense as Neptune.
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