Potato Shaped Planets
June 23, 2022 9:08 PM   Subscribe

No time to travel 1800 light years to visit the potato shaped exoplanet WASP-103b? No problem, the ringed, potato shaped dwarf planet Haumea is only 50 AU away at its farthest. Assuming a perfectly spherical potato of diameter 48mm, that's only 1.5583333e+14 potato-widths distant from home.
posted by sainttoad (2 comments total) 2 users marked this as a favorite
 
> Barros predicts that WASP-103b will be very puffy because of the hotness of its star along with other mechanisms.

More like baked potato shaped, amirite?
posted by AlSweigart at 10:00 PM on June 23, 2022


Asteroid 10199 Chariklo has two rings. Chariklo is the largest of the Centaur population of asteroids, which are those orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune.
posted by neuron at 10:29 AM on June 25, 2022


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