Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP

Kepler-960 b

RA 281.4572° · Dec 46.7466° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges

27 pts · Uncommon

Uncommon 33 pts → Rare

Lava world +14
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Sub-Neptune +5
Found by Kepler +3

Total score 27

6 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Sub-Neptune · +5
Lava world · +14
Found by Kepler · +3

Trivia

What makes it special

Lava world. Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 16.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 9293 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 929 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1097.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1859 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 3.1 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 2.3× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 12 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 5.9× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 1118°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc: 2.68
discovery facility: Kepler
discovery method: Transit
dist ly: 929.2706
eccentricity: 0
eq temp k: 1391
insolation: 129.223
mass earth: 5.86
name: Kepler-960 b
orbital period days: 3.1269
radius earth: 2.29
sys num planets: 1

About Kepler-960 b

Kepler-960 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 929.3 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,391 K, spans roughly 2.29 Earth radii and weighs about 5.86 Earth masses.

Its surface is likely an ocean of molten rock.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-960 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 Kepler-960 b is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-960 b scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Sub-Neptune, Lava world 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.