Titan-like exoplanet

A Titan-like exoplanet, Titan analog, exo-Titan or Titanic planet is an exoplanet like Saturn's moon Titan with a thick hazy atmosphere and cold enough for liquid hydrocarbons to exist on the surface.[1] Titan takes about 30 years to orbit the Sun but at the same temperature around an M dwarf a titan-like planet would take 2 years to orbit which is much easier to detect.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Future space telescopes may probe Titan-like exoplanets, Space.com, Nola Taylor Tillman, March 26, 2020
  2. ↑ A new kind of animal in the exoplanet zoo, astrobites.org, Kerrin Hensley, Jan 5, 2018
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