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Uncommon exoplanet 25 EP

HAT-P-2 c

RA 245.1514° · Dec 41.0480° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Long-period world +10
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 8.7 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around May — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Properties

density gcc
9.8
diameter km
158176.88
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2023
dist ly
416.7426
eccentricity
0.37
host star teff
6412
inclination
90
mag
8.72
mass earth
3400.764
name
HAT-P-2 c
orbital period days
8500
radius earth
12.4
spect
F8
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About HAT-P-2 c

HAT-P-2 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 416.7 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 8.72, has spectral type F8 and spans roughly 12.4 Earth radii.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 8.72, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, HAT-P-2 c 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 HAT-P-2 c is an uncommon exoplanet

HAT-P-2 c scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Long-period world and Multi-planet system — 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.