About EPIC 212499991 b
EPIC 212499991 b is a trash exoplanet. It lies about 924 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 1.6 Earth radii, weighs about 3.19 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 34.88 days.
About 1.6× the width of Earth.
Trash exoplanet 13 EP
EPIC 212499991 b
RA 202.4888° · Dec -12.7348° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Super-Earth +8
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 13
2 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Super-Earth · +8
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 16.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 9240 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 924 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1102.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1848 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 34.9 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.6× the width of Earth.
- Mass. About 3.2× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.2× your Earth weight standing here.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 4.28
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 923.9673
- mass earth
- 3.19
- name
- EPIC 212499991 b
- orbital period days
- 34.885
- radius earth
- 1.6
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, EPIC 212499991 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 212499991 b is a trash exoplanet
EPIC 212499991 b scores 13 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the trash tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 2 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet and Super-Earth — 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.