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Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for Friday, November 6th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird.

Scientists have discovered more information about an absolutely hellish, inhospitable planet, and it's not the one you think.

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Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

Scientists have discovered what headlines are variously calling the most extreme planet, the most inhospitable planet, and a bizarre hell planet.

No, they have not rediscovered Earth, even though it may feel that way a bit this year, the planet in question is called K2-141B. It's a planet so close to its star that one year takes only

seven hours, which, again, feels a bit like the year 2020 here. K2-141B is basically the thing of planets, you know, from Fantastic 4.

Its surface, ocean, and atmosphere are all made of rock.

On the planet, rock vaporizes into rocky rain that falls into an ocean of molten lava.

In some ways, it's similar enough to Earth that it's categorized by NASA as a super-Earth.

It's five times the mass of our planet.

And K2-141B's star is an orange dwarf star that's far younger than our sun,

and 0.7% of the distance away from K2-141B as we are to our sun.

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