terrestrial planet
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“This is a terrestrial planet that I would describe as Io on steroids,” Kane said in a statement about TOI-6713.01.
From Salon • May 14, 2024
"This is a terrestrial planet that I would describe as Io on steroids," Kane said.
From Science Daily • May 9, 2024
Anglada-Escudé and his colleagues estimate that Proxima b is at least 1.3 times as big as Earth and is most likely a terrestrial planet, with a surface.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 24, 2016
It is useful to approximate the structure of a terrestrial planet as having two parts: a metal core and a rocky mantle.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Our terrestrial planet is in constant increase by meteoric dust, moving to it through endless time out of infinite space.
From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter
