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They don't know the mass of the planet yet, so surface gravity is an unknown as of yet. The paper suggests two scenarios: a rocky world (~7 earth masses) or a
by qayxc 3y ago
They don't know the mass of the planet yet, so surface gravity is an unknown as of yet. The paper suggests two scenarios: a rocky world (~7 earth masses) or a water world (~2 earth masses).
Surface gravity would be 38m/s² for a rocky planet (~390% earth's surface gravity) and 8.2m/s² for a water world (~84% earth's surface gravity). I'm not an astronomer so I don't know if anything in between those values is a realistic scenario, but I wonder how you got your 125% of earth's surface gravity.
- at_a_remove 3y agoAnother poster had something else from NASA, suggesting 1.55 Earth radii and 3.02 Earth masses.