Uncommon exoplanet 25 EP

HD 68988 b

RA 124.5935° · Dec 61.4609° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

25 pts · Uncommon

Uncommon 33 pts → Rare

Hot Jupiter +10
Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 25

8 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
Hot Jupiter · +10
Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3.5 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 309.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 1984 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 198 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1828.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 397 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 6.3 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 13.4× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2406 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 626× Earth's mass — about 2 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 3.5× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 906°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

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

Properties

density gcc: 1.43
discovery facility: Multiple Observatories
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 198.4486
eccentricity: 0.12
eq temp k: 1179.39
insolation: 340.126
mass earth: 626.1251
name: HD 68988 b
orbital period days: 6.2771
radius earth: 13.4
sys num planets: 2

About HD 68988 b

HD 68988 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 198.4 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,179 K, spans roughly 13.4 Earth radii and weighs about 626.13 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 68988 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 68988 b is an uncommon exoplanet

HD 68988 b scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Hot Jupiter and Multi-planet system — 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.