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Common exoplanet 19 EP

HD 24064 b

RA 59.1510° · Dec 74.0801° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
19 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 19

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 6.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around November — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 17.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
12.1
diameter km
156901.26
discovery facility
Bohyunsan Optical Astronomical Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2015
dist ly
979.2736
eccentricity
0.35
eq temp k
1088.02
host star teff
4052
insolation
211.3995
mag
6.7462
mass earth
4096.8287
name
HD 24064 b
orbital period days
535.6
radius earth
12.3
semi major au
1.29
spect
K0
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About HD 24064 b

HD 24064 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 979.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 6.75, has spectral type K0 and has an equilibrium temperature near 1,088 K.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 6.75, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HD 24064 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why HD 24064 b is a common exoplanet

HD 24064 b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Hot Jupiter — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.