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Kerbin, is that you? ;-)


jlcarneiro

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"Manser and his team calculated that the planetesimal — which orbits close to the white dwarf every two hours — must be unusually dense and no larger than 600 kilometres in diameter, in order to avoid being ripped apart by the star’s gravitational forces."

https://medium.com/predict/small-dense-planet-observed-orbiting-white-dwarf-star-dedd9d5e9088

The only difference is Kerbol is not a white dwarf... :-P

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This its a bit real science rather than KSP but some hot rocky planets has idiotic high density like above 15 kg / liter. 
Points towards that degenerated matter in the core of gas giants are metastable and remind compressed after the gas and probably part of the solid core has been blown away. 
Other options is error or an planet entirely of very heavy metals who is little plausible  

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