Talk:HD 40307 c

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HD 40307 c has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
November 16, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
January 16, 2009	Good topic candidate	Promoted
October 4, 2014	Good topic removal candidate	Demoted

Current status: Good article

Satellite stability

I'm not sure the reference given for the part on satellite stability can be used here: the reference specifically deals with Jupiter-type planets, which would (probably) not apply to HD 40307 c. The relevant part of the paper is on page 1092:

Planets with masses less than 0.3 M_Jup differ in radius, Q_p, and interior structure from those with masses greater than 0.3 M_Jup. In addition, for lower planet masses the planet/satellite mass ratio increases beyond the assumption of nonsynchronization between the planet and the moon. For these reasons, we do not treat here the question of Earthlike satellites of ice-giant planets (M_p < 0.3 M_Jup).

Icalanise (talk) 10:34, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Then maybe it should be removed. When I placed the reference in there, as I could only read the abstract I drew the reference from what I read in the actual abstract. Hah, I didn't realize when writing science-related articles here I could be so inaccurate (I expanded HD 40307's planets beyond stub status, but BlueEarth and several others have been heavily correcting what I've put out). --Starstriker7(^{Dime algo}_{or see my works}) 22:08, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]