Common exoplanet 19 EP

NGC 2682 Sand 978 b

RA 132.8228° · Dec 11.7563° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

19 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 19

5 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Gas giant · +4
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. ≈ 47.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 4.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 26.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 2681 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 5361 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 511 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 13.3× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 2353 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 693× Earth's mass — about 2.2 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 3.9× your Earth weight standing here.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the radial velocity method.

Properties

density gcc: 1.62
discovery facility: Multiple Observatories
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 2680.7349
eccentricity: 0.16
mass earth: 692.8694
name: NGC 2682 Sand 978 b
orbital period days: 511.21
radius earth: 13.3
sys num planets: 1

About NGC 2682 Sand 978 b

NGC 2682 Sand 978 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 2,680.7 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 13.3 Earth radii, weighs about 692.87 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 511.21 days.

About 13.3× the width of Earth.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, NGC 2682 Sand 978 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 NGC 2682 Sand 978 b is a common exoplanet

NGC 2682 Sand 978 b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.