About EPIC 229004835 b
EPIC 229004835 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 397.8 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 804 K, spans roughly 2.33 Earth radii and weighs about 10.4 Earth masses.
About 2.3× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 10 EP
EPIC 229004835 b
RA 186.4860° · Dec -1.4047° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 10
5 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 621.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 3978 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 398 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1628.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 796 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 16.1 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 2.3× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 12.7 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 10.4× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.9× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 531°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 4.49
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 397.8157
- eccentricity
- 0.23
- eq temp k
- 804
- insolation
- 69.7
- mass earth
- 10.4
- name
- EPIC 229004835 b
- orbital period days
- 16.1411
- radius earth
- 2.332
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, EPIC 229004835 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 EPIC 229004835 b is a trash exoplanet
EPIC 229004835 b scores 10 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Sub-Neptune — 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.