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Uncommon exoplanet 26 EP

Kepler-866 b

RA 290.1222° · Dec 43.0854° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
26 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 26

7 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • 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. ≈ 37.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 21.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 2109 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 4218 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 2.6 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 1.6× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 4.3 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. About 3.3× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.2× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 723°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc
4.17
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
2109.1432
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
996
insolation
196.127
mass earth
3.29
name
Kepler-866 b
orbital period days
2.617
radius earth
1.63
sys num planets
1
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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.