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Common exoplanet 22 EP

Kapteyn c

RA 77.9587° · Dec -45.0430° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
22 pts · Common
Common 24 pts → Uncommon
  • Nearby (<25 ly) +12
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 22

2 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Sub-Neptune · +5
  • Nearby (<25 ly) · +12

Trivia

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 225.4 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 20 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 128 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 12.8 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 2013.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 25.7 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 122 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 2.5× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 16.4 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. About 7× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. A frigid -108°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

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

Properties

density gcc
2.35
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Radial Velocity
dist ly
12.8279
eccentricity
0.23
eq temp k
165.59
insolation
0.1666
mass earth
7
name
Kapteyn c
orbital period days
121.54
radius earth
2.54
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.