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- 1.2 million miles per hour!
'The planetary system is thought to move at least 1.2 million miles per hour, or 540 kilometers per second.'
“We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that would lie between the orbits of Venus and Earth if it were in our solar system,” said Sean Terry
https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-scientists-spot-candidate-for-speediest-exoplanet-system/
Here is a link to the full article:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9b0f/meta
(the links on the NASA site sometimes don't work.
seems to be an advertising link getting in the way).
Cheers,
Tom
“We think this is a so-called super-Neptune world orbiting a low-mass star at a distance that would lie between the orbits of Venus and Earth if it were in our solar system,” said Sean Terry
https://www.nasa.gov/universe/nasa-scientists-spot-candidate-for-speediest-exoplanet-system/
Here is a link to the full article:
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad9b0f/meta
(the links on the NASA site sometimes don't work.
seems to be an advertising link getting in the way).
Cheers,
Tom