https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1210.3612/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4657693urn:hackerpapers:mention:1210.3612:4657693Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:47:02 GMT<p>I tracked down the original paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3612) and dug up some useful details. The planet in question is a gas/ice giant similar to Uranus with a radius 6 times that of Earth (nearly 80,000 km in diameter) with an as yet unknown mass (although it must weigh less than half of Jupiter&#x27;s mass at the most). It orbits a pair of binary stars with a period of 138 days. The binary it orbits is an F dwarf star with 1.5 the Sun&#x27;s mass and an M dwarf with 40% of the Sun&#x27;s mass, they orbit each other with a period of 20 days. For reference, this translates to the two stars orbiting…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1210.3612/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>astro-ph.EP