Astronomers Find Super-Earth with Mercury-Like Composition: K2-229b0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2018
An international team of astronomers has discovered a planetary system containing at least three massive planets, orbiting the bright late-G/early-K-type dwarf star K2-229. What’s the most intriguing is that one of these extrasolar planets is a super-Earth class object with a Mercury-like composition.
