except where they are noting how helium is being allowed to escape and not being captured as was previously done by the now shut down U.S. National Helium Reserve.
6x time size (diameter?) or 6 times the mass. Evidently the Earth used to be much larger in size but not mass because of large amounts of trapped hydrogen/helium. It's since leaked from the crust and been blown off into space.
the catalog says 6.38x mass in one place and 5.6x mass in another
they must be able to calculate mass from orbital physics?
so you'd need a rocket 6x the size of SaturnV or whatever they are using for Artemis to escape it and most of that rocket is to lift the weight of the fuel for said rocket so it might be physically impossible to build such a creature at current level of tech
(might be yet another angle to "why no ETs" unless they are WAY more advanced)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-would-we-know...
except where they are noting how helium is being allowed to escape and not being captured as was previously done by the now shut down U.S. National Helium Reserve.
nearly 6x the size of earth though, good luck trying to launch a probe off that surface
NASA has a neat "exoplanet catalog" which is about to leap in size next few years with new telescopes and techniques
* https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/lhs-1140-b/
they must be able to calculate mass from orbital physics?
so you'd need a rocket 6x the size of SaturnV or whatever they are using for Artemis to escape it and most of that rocket is to lift the weight of the fuel for said rocket so it might be physically impossible to build such a creature at current level of tech
(might be yet another angle to "why no ETs" unless they are WAY more advanced)