{"id":405968,"date":"2017-11-20T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=00ce430cabf51af32f8f44290f256ffe"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:00:04","slug":"super-earth-planet-with-very-short-orbital-period-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=405968","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Super-Earth&#8217; planet with very short orbital period discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014NASA&#8217;s prolonged Kepler exoplanet-hunting mission, known as K2, has revealed the presence of another &#8220;super-Earth&#8221; alien world. The newly found planet, designated EPIC 246393474 b (or C12_3474 b), is more than five times more massive than the Earth and orbits its parent star in less than seven hours. The discovery is reported November 6 in a paper published on the arXiv pre-print repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)&mdash;NASA&#8217;s prolonged Kepler exoplanet-hunting mission, known as K2, has revealed the presence of another &#8220;super-Earth&#8221; alien world. The newly found planet, designated EPIC 246393474 b (or C12_3474 b), is more than five times more massive than the Earth and orbits its parent star in less than seven hours. The discovery is reported November 6 in a paper published on the arXiv pre-print repository.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405969,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405968\/revisions\/405969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}