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Super-Earth

Name given to a category of exoplanets whose masses are between 1 to 10 times that of the Earth in its broadest definition. Even though a Super-Earth is generally bigger than our planet, it remains a small object compared to gas giants (like Jupiter and Neptune, for example) and is more comparable to Earth than to those giants. The name Super-Earth certainly does not describe a range of conditions making the planet inhabitable. It only concerns the mass of the planet

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