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Common exoplanet 15 EP

AU Mic e

RA 311.2911° · Dec -31.3424° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
15 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Neptune-like +4
Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Neptune-like · +4
  • Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 557.2 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 49.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 317 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 31.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1994.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 63.4 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 33.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 4.9× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 116 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. About 21.1× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.9× your Earth weight standing here.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Mauna Kea Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
1
discovery facility
Mauna Kea Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
dist ly
31.7092
mass earth
21.1
name
AU Mic e
orbital period days
33.11
radius earth
4.87
sys num planets
4
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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.