Uncommon exoplanet 29 EP
Kepler-172 e
RA 283.3684° · Dec 41.8218° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 29
4 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by Kepler · +3
- 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. ≈ 47.5 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. ≈ 27 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 2703 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 5405 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 35.1 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 2.8× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 21 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 8.1× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 277°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 2.1
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 2702.5025
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 550
- insolation
- 23.431
- mass earth
- 8.05
- name
- Kepler-172 e
- orbital period days
- 35.1187
- radius earth
- 2.76
- sys num planets
- 4