Epic exoplanet 46 EP
Kepler-6 b
RA 296.8372° · Dec 48.2400° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Lava world +14
- Hot Jupiter +10
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 46
22 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Hot Jupiter · +10
- Lava world · +14
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 33.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 19.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1915 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 111.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 3829 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 3.2 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 14.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 3123 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 212× Earth's mass — about 0.7 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
- Temperature. Around 1187°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.4
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 1914.6629
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 1460
- insolation
- 792.218
- mass earth
- 212.3104
- name
- Kepler-6 b
- orbital period days
- 3.2347
- radius earth
- 14.6165
- sys num planets
- 1