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Uncommon exoplanet 29 EP

Kepler-47 b

RA 295.2979° · Dec 46.9204° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
29 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 29

4 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 58.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 5.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 33.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 3343 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 6686 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 49.5 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 3× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 28.4 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. About 2.1× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.2× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
  • Temperature. A scorching 217°C on average.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
0.4
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
3343.1642
eccentricity
0.021
eq temp k
490.2
insolation
10.1419
mass earth
2.07
name
Kepler-47 b
orbital period days
49.4643
radius earth
3.05
sys num planets
3
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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.