http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 215141.htm
So they've found an in between, and are puzzled. I don't think I need to mention how perfectly this fits with the EU perspective. This sort of behavior should be expected from a body of this size and it relationship with it's parent star, It seems to me you could take the flipped and altered HR diagram (http://www.electric-cosmos.org/hrdiagr.htm) and extend it through objects such as these and onto gas giants no problem.The object, named COROT-exo-3b, is about the size of Jupiter, but packs more than 20 times the mass. It takes only 4 days and 6 hours to orbit its parent star, which is slightly larger than the Sun.
Actually if the scale in the diagram was accurate (a big maybe), and obviously we cannot trust the assumptions of mass. I think a Jupiter sized planet in such close proximity would behave like this while sharing some of the current load of the star.
"It has puzzled us; we’re not sure where to draw the boundary between planets and brown dwarfs.”
Puzzled again. Well let's add another category to the mix then. Perhaps they should be drawing a line between instead of a boundary.
Bah! can't we sac these guys? Translation - Studying it will give us more time to come up with some new fantasy. Although I must admit I'd love to hear the explanation.As a planet, COROT-exo-3b would be the most massive and the densest found to date - more than twice as dense as lead. Studying it will help them better understand how to categorise such objects. The team also wants to understand how such a massive object formed so close to its parent.
