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Which choice best describes data from the table that support Rodriguez and colleagues' assertion? Characteristics of Five Recently Discovered Gas Exoplanets Exoplanet designationMass (Jupiters)Radius (Jupiters)Orbital period (days)Distance from the Sun (parsecs) TOI-640 b0.881.7715.003340 TOI-1601 b0.991.2395.331336 TOI-628 b6.331.0603.409178 TOI-1478 b0.851.06010.180153 TOI-1333 b2.371.3964.720200 'Hot Jupiters' are gas planets that have a mass of at least 0.25 Jupiters (meaning that their mass is at least 25% of that of Jupiter) and an orbital period of less than 10 days, while 'warm Jupiters' are gas planets that meet the same mass criterion but have orbital periods of more than 10 days. In 2021, Michigan State University astronomer Joseph Rodriguez and colleagues announced the discovery of five new gas exoplanets and asserted that four are hot Jupiters and one is a warm Jupiter.
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- 1Each of the planets has a mass greater than 0.25 Jupiters, and all except for TOI-1478 b have an orbital period of less than 10 days.✓
- 2All the planets have a radius between 1.060 and 1.771 Jupiters, and only TOI-1333 b has an orbital period of more than 10 days.
- 3TOI-1478 b has an orbital period of 153 days, and the masses of all the planets range from 0.85 to 6.33 Jupiters.
- 4None of the planets have an orbital period of more than 10 days, and TOI-628 b has a mass of 6.33 Jupiters.
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Each of the planets has a mass greater than 0.25 Jupiters, and all except for TOI-1478 b have an orbital period of less than 10 days.
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