Epic exoplanet 66 EP
Kepler-296 e
RA 286.5400° · Dec 49.4373° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- In the habitable zone +30
- Richly packed system +14
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 66
2 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- In the habitable zone · +30
- Super-Earth · +8
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Richly packed system · +14
- Found by Kepler · +3
Trivia
What makes it special
- Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.
- Packed system. Crammed into a system of five or more planets.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 9.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 850.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 5447 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 545 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1481.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1089 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 34.1 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.5× the width of Earth.
- Mass. About 3× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.3× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 64°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 5 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 4.1
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 544.6805
- eccentricity
- 0.33
- eq temp k
- 337
- habitable zone
- yes
- insolation
- 1.41
- mass earth
- 2.96
- name
- Kepler-296 e
- orbital period days
- 34.1421
- radius earth
- 1.53
- sys num planets
- 5