Talk:Kepler-11

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Hi, I just started the Kepler-11 article, but it's a stub for now, so have at it and let's see if we can do some expanding. :) Nathan McKnight -- Aelffin (talk) 19:22, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi, I expect it to grow rapidly. Exciting confirmed discovery. --Hatteras (talk) 21:00, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Should change the mass from comparison with Jupiter, to Earth-like masses, right ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.62.239.14 (talk) 21:02, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

Is anything an "Ice" Giant if it's inside the orbit of Mercury on a (very) Sun-like star? 68.183.80.244 (talk) 02:59, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * No it makes no sense, which is why I removed it. Well that and the fact "Ice Giant" is a Solar System-specific term referring to Uranus and Neptune.


 * During the conference the team were keen to stress that from the inferred bulk densities most of the planets seem compositionally neither Super-Earth or Neptune-like anyway but somewhere inbetween. ChiZeroOne (talk) 03:14, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * An ice giant is a planet composed mostly of ices; that is, volatiles with a melting point above 100K or so, regardless of the temperature of the planet. A hot planet close to its sun could very well be an ice giant. Jswhitten (talk) 08:50, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Very Sun-like Star, but all Earth-size planets closer than Mercury.
I was just going to suggest that since the Star is so much like the Sun that this chart should have our inner solar system underneath displayed in the same way, especially to show that all the Earth-size ones are closer than Mercury's 0.387098 AU distance from the sun. G at 0.462 AU is also closer than Venus' 0.723332 AU orbit, but actually closer to Mercury's orbit. 24.78.172.60 (talk) 09:48, 3 February 2011 (UTC)


 * That sounds useful, unsure when I can get to it. So we just show sun, mercury and Venus? Tom Ruen (talk) 22:48, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Okay, another quick attempt, exported as PNG. It has to be pretty wide to include the full inner solar system. (All planets scaled up by 50) Those are big planets!!! Tom Ruen (talk) 00:10, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Kepler-11_sideview_withsolarsystem.png


 * Nice work. However, I'd suggest to remove Mars (and maybe Earth as well) to reduce its width. You might also consider stopping the Kepler-11 "drawn line" shortly after g since the outer parts of the system have not yet been examined. After all, Kepler-11 may well have several further planets beyond g's orbit, which cannot yet be seen by Kepler since their orbital period would be too long. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 15:45, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Beauty, I can see the whole thing on my extra wide monitor but I agree it has extra length. I would say end just after Earth and just after G for the line. 24.78.172.60 (talk) 04:39, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
 * On second thought, that's still too wide for normal display, I would stop at Venus for a normal article display. But for a thumbnail the length is not relevant.24.78.172.60 (talk) 04:45, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

Planet indirect imaging
Be glad to see any of the Hubble or other images of these planets. That would be great. 174.125.77.208 (talk) 06:15, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Alas, the HST will never see planets 2000ly away. These will always be statistical worlds. Tom Ruen (talk) 18:36, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hubble indeed has no chance, but future space missions may: a telescope put in the Sun's gravitational focus point opposite Kepler-11 should be able to image them, if people think the system is worth it... --Roentgenium111 (talk) 13:28, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

g
Why is the upper mass limit on the last planet is so high ? From it's radius and the similar distance to the star, I would guess that it's more likely to be some problem with the data/measurements and the real mass is similar to that of the other planets. Did anybody read the paper itself ? (I'm a little short on time now, I'll try to get to it next week). Thanks ! Jacobs (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:56, 3 February 2011 (UTC).


 * says The sixth planet is far enough away from its siblings that it doesn't affect their orbital dance. Instead astronomers had to run through a suite of calculations to be sure the planet exists. While the team is confident it's there, they weren't able to tease out as many details about the outlying world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.146.178.58 (talk) 01:39, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Indeed, the masses of the planets were determined by the relatively new transit timing method because a) the limits of the sensitivity of the radial velocity method and b) this is far easier with large multiple planet systems. Unfortunately g orbits at a great enough distance away from the others not to produce a detectable timing variation and so they can only give very limited constraints on what the planets mass should be. ChiZeroOne (talk) 01:49, 4 February 2011 (UTC)


 * To me it's surprising they give this high upper limit at all. Even an all-iron planet (or even all-lead) of the given size would weigh much less than 200 Earth masses. Therefore I'd suggest removing the estimate from our table since it's trivial information, and just write "Unknown" --Roentgenium111 (talk) 15:57, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅--Roentgenium111 (talk) 13:19, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Separate articles for planets
Do we need one article per exoplanet - will there ever be more information on them than can be provided in a orbital parameter table? It seems more sensible to add subsections to this short article as needed, unless the content volume demands it. (I've not seen any Wiki policy discussion on exoplanets, so just an opinion here.) Tom Ruen (talk) 04:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * I think they should all just remain redirects to here, since we have basically no additional information about them other than what is known and listed at this article already. Maybe, years down the line, we'll know more, but at this stage, there are no real details worth splitting from this article. —Torchiest talkedits 15:48, 15 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Agreement from me, but they are now made as stub articles like Kepler-11b. Tom Ruen (talk) 18:21, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

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