Uncommon exoplanet 30 EP
Kepler-68 c
RA 291.0323° · Dec 49.0402° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Earth-sized +16
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 30
3 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Earth-sized · +16
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by Kepler · +3
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 8.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 734.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 4702 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 470 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1556.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 940 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 9.6 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. Almost exactly Earth-sized.
- Mass. About 1.3× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.4× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 779°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 7.5
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 470.2061
- eccentricity
- 0.099
- eq temp k
- 1052
- insolation
- 204
- mass earth
- 1.3
- name
- Kepler-68 c
- orbital period days
- 9.605
- radius earth
- 0.979
- sys num planets
- 4