mini-Neptune
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thumb|upright=1.1|Artist's conception of a mini-Neptune or "gas dwarf"
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It sits within the topics Exoplanets, Giant planets and Neptune.
Its subject is documented across 26 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Subclass of
- giant planet
- Named after
- Neptune
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thumb|upright=1.1|Artist's conception of a mini-Neptune or "gas dwarf"
A Mini-Neptune (sometimes known as a gas dwarf or transitional planet) is a planet less massive than Neptune but resembling Neptune in that it has a thick hydrogen-helium atmosphere, probably with deep layers of ice, rock or liquid oceans (made of water, ammonia, a mixture of both, or heavier volatiles).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “mini-Neptune” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.