Common exoplanet 16 EP
K2-155 c
RA 65.4696° · Dec 21.3533° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 16
8 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Multi-planet system · +6
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 4.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 370.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 2374 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 237 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1789.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 475 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 13.8 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 2.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 17.6 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 7.3× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 310°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 2.27
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 237.4409
- eq temp k
- 583
- insolation
- 7
- mass earth
- 7.27
- name
- K2-155 c
- orbital period days
- 13.85
- radius earth
- 2.6
- sys num planets
- 3