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Uncommon exoplanet 33 EP

HD 164604 c

RA 270.7787° · Dec -28.5608° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 5 badges
33 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Long-period world +10
  • Frozen world +8
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 33

1 more point to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Frozen world · +8
  • Long-period world · +10
  • Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

What makes it special

  • Frozen world. A deep-frozen world, too far from its star's warmth for anything to stay liquid.

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 9.6 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Southern sky. It rides the southern half of the sky — an easier target the further south you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around June — that's when to go looking.

Properties

density gcc
8.49
diameter km
159452.5
discovery facility
Las Campanas Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2026
dist ly
128.3858
eccentricity
0.196
eq temp k
84.25
host star teff
4663
inclination
8.6
insolation
0.0084
mag
9.62
mass earth
3019.3699
name
HD 164604 c
orbital period days
5387
radius earth
12.5
semi major au
5.556
spect
K3.5 V
sys num planets
2
sys num stars
1

About HD 164604 c

HD 164604 c is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 128.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 9.62, has spectral type K3.5 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 84 K.

A deep-frozen world, too far from its star's warmth for anything to stay liquid.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 9.62, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, HD 164604 c 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 HD 164604 c is an uncommon exoplanet

HD 164604 c scores 33 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 1 point would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 5 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Frozen world, Long-period world and Multi-planet system — 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.