Epic exoplanet 51 EP
Kepler-409 b
RA 293.6792° · Dec 46.8527° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Denser than iron +18
- Earth-sized +16
- Eccentric orbit +9
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 51
17 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Earth-sized · +16
- Eccentric orbit · +9
- Denser than iron · +18
- Found by Kepler · +3
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 3.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 347.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 2224 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 222 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1804.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 445 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 69 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.2× the width of Earth.
- Mass. About 6× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 4.2× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. A scorching 165°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 19
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 222.3503
- eccentricity
- 0.69
- eq temp k
- 438
- insolation
- 6.15
- mass earth
- 6
- name
- Kepler-409 b
- orbital period days
- 68.9583
- radius earth
- 1.199
- sys num planets
- 1