Meanings
hot jupiter1
plural hot jupiters
- Alternative letter-case form of hot Jupiter.
hot Jupiter2
plural hot Jupiters
- astronomyAn 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 224Synonyms: pegasid, epistellar Jovian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn exosolar planet whose characteristics are similar to Jupiter, but which orbits its parent star much more closely and thus has higher temperatures.
Translations
Finnish kuuma jupiter
- kuuma jupitertype of exoplanet
French Jupiter chaud, Jupiter chaude
- Jupiter chaudtype of exoplanet
- Jupiter chaudetype of exoplanet
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