There is a lot of conjecture about his planet.
It has an eccentric orbit, so it got a partner planet:
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This planet should not be as eccentric as is measured. To have maintained its eccentricity over time requires that it be accompanied by another planet. In September 2008, a formerly-unrecognised transit signature at NMSU from January 11, 2005 was incorporated into the data up to then, consistent with a planet at 0.08 AU and under 12 Earth masses.
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It has a period of about 2 days (only !)… but:
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Whatever energy that tidal effects deliver to the planet does not notably affect its temperature.
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This isn't what happens around Saturn & Jupiter !
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The planet could have formed further from its current position, as a gas giant, and migrated inwards with the other gas giants. As it arrived in range, the star would have blown off the planet's hydrogen layer via coronal mass ejection
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.. and now a previously unknown convection to account for missing CH4.
I realise that the variability in our own Solar System is immense but it seems that each planet is destined to have its own formation theory !
Surely true scientific value comes from when there is a 'class' of planets which have something(s) in common (?).
We must have a long, long way to go to see the horizon on all this stuff !!
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