Talk:Kepler-40b

Inverse English
"The planet is also nearly thirteen times hotter than Jupiter and orbits five times closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun." I'm OK with "five times farther," but I have trouble with using the term "five times closer" to describe a fraction of a distance. Would it be simpler to state that [KOI-428b] orbits its sun at 1/5 the distance that Mercury orbits the Sun? Nei1 (talk) 18:50, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
 * If "five times farther" is okay, then so is "five times closer". "Closer" means "at a smaller distance", so it is simply okay as long as the reference point is clearly mentioned. Here, that it is the case (aside from the slightly weird English, which I've fixed). --JorisvS (talk) 19:48, 6 July 2016 (UTC)