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hot Jupiters

hot Jupiters is the plural of hot Jupiter.

Meaning of hot Jupiter

Noun

hot Jupiter (plural hot Jupiters)

  1. An exosolar planet whose characteristics are similar to Jupiter, but which orbits its parent star much more closely and thus has higher temperatures.
    • Or, to put it a different way, the chance of finding a hot Jupiter is 100 times higher than the chance of finding a normal Jupiter, because it is 100 times closer to its parent star.2010, James Kasting, How to Find a Habitable Planet, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 224

Questions about hot Jupiters

What is hot Jupiters the plural of?
Hot Jupiters is the plural of hot Jupiter.

Words near hot Jupiters in the dictionary

  1. hot ice
  2. hot iron test
  3. hot iron tests
  4. hot jazz
  5. hot jupiter
  6. hot Jupiters
  7. hot karl
  8. hot key
  9. hot keys
  10. hot lab
  11. hot laboratories

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