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True Color Of An Exoplanet Discovered For The First Time
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Not really. Silicate clouds are expected to be quite common in hot jupiters (hyperthermaljovians, in OA nomenclature).
Planets with Sudarsky class V characteristics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudarsky_ex...ate_clouds
would have silicate clouds and silicate rain.

The colour of a class V planet is expected to be blue
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Celest...class5.png


However I note that HD 189733 b is supposed to be a Sudarsky class IV, which are supposed to be dull maroonish-brown; obviously there is a certain amount of overlap between the classes...
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RE: True Color Of An Exoplanet Discovered For The First Time - by stevebowers - 07-14-2013, 06:25 PM

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