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Uncommon exoplanet 30 EP

Kepler-953 c

RA 288.9716° · Dec 44.6246° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
30 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Earth-sized +16
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 30

3 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Earth-sized · +16
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 14.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 8444 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 844 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1182.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1689 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 9.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 1.2× the width of Earth.
  • Mass. About 1.8× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.3× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 600°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
5.9
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
844.3951
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
873
insolation
121.04
mass earth
1.81
name
Kepler-953 c
orbital period days
9.1097
radius earth
1.19
sys num planets
2

About Kepler-953 c

Kepler-953 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 844.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 873 K, spans roughly 1.19 Earth radii and weighs about 1.81 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-953 c 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 Kepler-953 c is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-953 c scores 30 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Earth-sized, Multi-planet system and Found by Kepler — 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.

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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.