It is a decisive victory for the dense super-Earth #LHS1140b over the evaporating mini-Neptune #GJ3470b LHS 1140b heads into the #ExoCup2022 quarter finals but who will it go up against?
Two ancient systems go up against each other in this #ExoCup2022 battle #Kepler444b an tiny Mercury in an 11.2 BILLION year old triple star 5 planet system #WD1856b a Jupiter around a dead white dwarf star oldies but goodies up for your #Vote, only you can decide
Some great #exoplanets - the little ancient warm exo-mercury #Kepler444b orbiting a star with some m-dwarf siblings - vs - the icy short-period giant #WD1856b that survived the death of its star as it became a white dwarf you can get that and more facts from our #ExoCup2022 cards
#Kepler444b might be the oldest #exoplanet in #ExoCup2022, but that's not preventing this enigmatic, Mercury-sized world from holding its own against some big names! 2020 Champion and white dwarf-hosted exo-Jupiter #WD1856b will go no further this year!
We're into the final few polls of the #ExoCup2022 Round-of-16! Today we see young whippersnapper #AUMicb up against the wonderfully-named HJ #Tauboob for one of the last places in the QFs. Which planet advances?
Not sure which planet to pick? Well, our limited edition #ExoCup2022 cards provide a snapshot overview of each competitor to help you make your decision. They contain a few facts* but can't tell the whole story... *facts not subject to anonymous peer-review
The penultimate #ExoCup2022 Ro16 poll is now closed! Young, chunky Neptune #AUMicb is through to the quarters, repping for @NASA_TESS, but we wave goodbye to hot Jupiter #TauBoob for this year. 👋 You need more than a great name to compete in #ExoCup2022! #COCONUTS2b #TauBoob
The final poll of #ExoCup2022 Round-of-16 decides which planet will take the last spot in the QFs. Ultra hot, egg-shaped, and full of heavy metals, can #WASP121b (@WASPplanets) compete with lava world #55Cnce, the first 'super Earth' discovered around a main-sequence star?
You know the deal by now, right? Make your all-important choice, but not before consulting our #ExoCup2022 cards...they've got some facts and figures, you've got the vote! Winner of this poll goes up against #AUMicb in the quarter-finals.
Would you look at that... IT'S A DEAD HEAT! You know what that means: our first #ExoCup2022 run-off poll! Restart your campaigns for one final hectic hour of extra-time. Which of these dynamic worlds will win? Ultra hot-Jupiter #WASP121b Hot super-Earth #55Cnce
It's little lava world #55Cnce which takes the last spot in the last eight in added time. Commiserations to #WASP121b. We'll be taking a break for the next few days (happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!). But we'll be back on Monday to start the #ExoCup2022 Quarter Finals!
After a relaxing long weekend for the remaining 8 planets, the #ExoCup2022 mercilessly continues! Which of these worlds will win: #TRAPPIST1e - The middle sibling in a family of 7 rocky worlds #Proximab - An earth-mass RV planet orbiting in the habitable zone of our nearest star
As always, here are our #ExoCup2022 fact cards for these remarkably similar worlds: 📏 Both roughly earth-sized. 🔴 Both orbiting M-dwarfs. 💧 Both with <255K equilibrium temperatures... But only one can win. We want to hear which one you think that should be (and why)!
Well it happened again! Another #ExoCup2022 round ends all square. Time for another rapid-fire decider round between: One of the habitable zone planets in everyone's favourite 7-planet system - #TRAPPIST1e The earth-mass planet orbiting the star next door - #Proximab
And this time, after two extremely close contests between these extremely similar planets, we finally have a winner - #Proximab. The first planet into the semi-finals. Another underwhelming cup for the TRAPPIST-1 system though...
The next two #ExoCup2022 planets come from the opposite end of the exoplanetary spectrum: #WASP39b - A low-density giant planet and JWST's recent play-thing, finding H2O, CO2 and even SO2! #WASP12b - An ultra hot Jupiter with extreme tides both deforming it & dragging it closer
As ever, you get some funky #ExoCup2022 cards to go with your vote. But we also want to hear your entirely unbiased opinions on these two planets! I'd personally love to hear which one @WASPplanets is voting for.
And it's #WASP39b which wins the Battle of the WASPs and sweeps into the semi-finals.
After an all-hot Jupiter round, it's back to the small planets in the third #ExoCup2022 quarter final. Will it be... #LHS1140b - An extremely dense iron-rich planet transiting a nearby M-dwarf #Kepler444b - A tiny Mars-radius planet on a short orbit around an ancient star.
And here are your #ExoCup2022 cards for these two planets. Let us know which you plan to vote for!
A rather decisive victory for the super dense super earth #LHS1140b over the tiny old #Kepler444b moving it into the #ExoCup2022 semi-finals against #Proximab which will start late tomorrow!!
Now for the last Quarter Final of #ExoCup2022! Two very competitive worlds 👶🚚#AUMicb a transiting young heavy-Neptune orbiting an incredibly active star 🌋🚚#55Cnce a small transiting lava world with potentially rocky atmosphere
And, with a resounding victory for spicy meatball #55Cnce over #AUMicb, the #ExoCup2022 quarter-finals come to and end! The first semi-final will be starting soon, get your voting fingers ready!
The first semi-final of #ExoCup2022 is here, and this is bound to be a heated contest between two very popular rocky planets. Can nextdoor neighbour #Proximab make it to the finals this year? Or will it be chunky #LHS1140b's time to challenge for the cup?
As always, we won't let you make this difficult decision without offering some interesting facts and figures for both of these competitors in the form of our original #ExoCup2022 cards:
Who will #Proximab face in the #ExoCup2022 final? 🪐🌈#WASP39b: poster child for @NASAWebb #exoplanet community science w/ H2O, CO2, Na, K, & 1st SO2 detection in an exo' atmo. 🌋🪨#55Cnce: nearby super heated lava world possibly spitting out chunks of rock to form an atmosphere
You know what you need to do! Along with these handy fact cards why not share some of the things you love about these #exoplanets and help people #vote in #ExoCup2022
So there we have it, #WASP39b will take on #Proximab in this year's grand #ExoCup2022 final! That will be a 48hr-long poll starting this time tomorrow.
But before that, we need to find out which of these two small transiting super-Earths will take home the #ExoCup2022 bronze medal 🥉: #LHS1140b - a cool & dense world transiting a nearby M-dwarf #55Cnce - an extremely hot & low-density lava world transiting a nearby sunlike star.
For the penultimate time, here are our fact cards for these two planets. Which of them merits a place on the podium? You have 24 hours to decide! #ExoCup2022
#ExoCup2022 is coming to a close and we can announce that #LHS1140b is the 3rd place winner🥉 it was a close one with #55Cnce putting up a good fight throughout the competition but hopefully it doesn't melt its 4th place medal in anger🏅 Next up the FINAL!
🚨 #ExoCup2022 FINAL! 🚨 Which #exoplanet will be crowned 👑 the champion of 2022 & take the trophy🏆? #WASP39b a low density giant w/ a jam packed atmosphere of molecules OR #Proximab our coolest nearest neighbour We are gonna need some science with these ones so get sharing!
@ExocastExoCup How it started: 1st 3 transits ever recorded of #WASP39b by @WASPplanets survey, back in 2009:
@ExocastExoCup How it's going: superb spectra of #WASP39b from #JWST (from Rustamkulov et al, arxiv.org/abs/2211.10487 )
