Although this doesn't automatically boot them out of the super-Earth club, the stripped planets slowly shrink in mass, say scientists, until they are no longer worthy of the title.
According to NASA, "So much groundwater has disappeared -- much of it from pumping to farms -- that it's causing the state to shrink in mass".
These three patterns of individual movement have different implications for pollination services, and each demand testing with more bee tracking, provided radio-transmitters continue shrinking in size and mass.
At the same time as he shrank in physical mass, his appearance became more cartoonish: more jewellery, more leather, whiter hair.
As a black hole shrinks in mass and radius, the Hawking radiation emanating from it becomes greater and greater in temperature and power.
That constituency is shrinking in stunning numbers.
In general, the donor star will be the more massive component in the binary and the binary orbit will initially shrink in response to mass transfer.
Thymus the shrinking mass in aid of breath and exhalation [Cooper].
The visual acuity of both eyes improved during treatment, suggesting a shrinking mass in both eyes.
Amid fears about Kiribati's survival, the government has been forced to consider radical engineering schemes to mitigate a shrinking land mass, while buying farmland in Fiji as a "food security" measure.
Careful measurement of the mass is required, as the spleen may shrink in response to treatment, making the Gaucheroma appear proportionately larger and thus mimicking a growing tumour.
