It’s called K2-141b. I would have named it, ‘Michael Moore’s Toilet’ but then I’m not a scientist.
Space.com: Scientists think they have identified a lava world so dramatic that it might boast a thin regional atmosphere of vaporized rock where it is closest to its star.
That exoplanet is called K2-141b and was originally discovered in 2017. The world is about half again as big as Earth but orbits so close to its star, which is one class smaller than our own, that it completes several loops each Earth-day with the same surface permanently facing the star. Now, scientists predict those factors mean that two-thirds of the surface of K2-141b is permanently sunlit — so much so that not only is part of the world covered in a lava ocean, but some of that rock may even evaporate away into the atmosphere.
“All rocky planets, including Earth, started off as molten worlds but then rapidly cooled and solidified,” Nicolas Cowan, a planetary scientist at McGill University in Canada and a coauthor on the new paper, said in a statement. “Lava planets give us a rare glimpse at this stage of planetary evolution.” MORE
And for an up-to-the-minute report, we bring you FDR In Hell who is standing by on planet K2-141b. FDR? What’s it like down there?
Meanwhile back in our planetary system Pluto is going WTF??
They should name it “Taco Tuesday”….Or weak bowels Wednesday
That sounds like a good place to send the libs to.
TRF, Pluto is saying, “Fuck outta here.”
For a more easily remembered and pronounced name, I suggest calling it Thai Hot.
The only difficulty I have with the article are two words at the beginning “scientists think”. To which I add “not necessarily”
What are the tornadoes like on this Hot Rock? Lava spouts?
Probably just a Taco Bell stand…
Extirpates; more entertaining would be something like “Scientist have pulled yet another hair-brained theory from their collective asses” – more accurate too.