About HD 162020 b
HD 162020 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 100.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 650 K, spans roughly 12.5 Earth radii and weighs about 3,127.45 Earth masses.
Packed denser than solid iron.
Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP
HD 162020 b
RA 267.6599° · Dec -40.3185° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Denser than iron +18
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 27
6 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Denser than iron · +18
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 1.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 157 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 1005 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 101 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1925.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 201 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 8.4 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 12.5× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 1953 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 3127× Earth's mass — about 9.8 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 20.0× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. A scorching 377°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by La Silla Observatory using the radial velocity method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 8.8
- discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 100.5369
- eccentricity
- 0.28
- eq temp k
- 650
- insolation
- 39.0625
- mass earth
- 3127.4472
- name
- HD 162020 b
- orbital period days
- 8.4282
- radius earth
- 12.5
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, HD 162020 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 HD 162020 b is an uncommon exoplanet
HD 162020 b scores 27 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 6 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant and Denser than iron — 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.