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Common exoplanet 20 EP

K2-409 b

RA 228.4551° · Dec -16.3513° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
20 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Distant (>1000 ly) +10
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 20

4 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • 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. ≈ 24.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 14.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 1406 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 620.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2812 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 1.9 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 2.5× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 15.3 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. About 6.7× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.

Properties

density gcc
2.42
discovery facility
K2
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
1405.8335
mass earth
6.72
name
K2-409 b
orbital period days
1.9081
radius earth
2.482
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.