Second generation planet

A second generation planet is a type of exoplanet that forms in a binary star system when one of the stars becomes a red giant and mass transfers from it to an accretion disk around the other star where the planet can form.[1]

References

  1. ^ Second generation planets, Hagai B. Perets, 4 Jan 2010
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