ALL SIX PLANETS KNOWN TO ORBIT KEPLER-11 HAVE LOW DENSITIES

@article{Lissauer2013ALLSP,
  title={ALL SIX PLANETS KNOWN TO ORBIT KEPLER-11 HAVE LOW DENSITIES},
  author={Jack J. Lissauer and Daniel Jontof-Hutter and Jason F. Rowe and Daniel C. Fabrycky and Eric D. Lopez and Eric Agol and Geoffrey W. Marcy and Katherine M. Deck and Debra A. Fischer and Jonathan J. Fortney and Steve B. Howell and Howard T. Isaacson and Jon M. Jenkins and Rea Kolbl and Dimitar D. Sasselov and Donald R. Short and William F. Welsh},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2013},
  volume={770},
  pages={131}
}
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Kepler Participating Scientist Program, NASA grant NNX12AD23G) 
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