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Epic exoplanet 58 EP

KIC 10001893 d

RA 287.3892° · Dec 46.9844° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 7 badges
58 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Ultra-short period +14
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star +14
  • Disputed — it may not be there at all +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 58

20 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Ultra-short period · +14
  • Multi-planet system · +6
  • Found by Kepler · +3
  • Orbits a hot blue-white star · +14
  • Disputed — it may not be there at all · +10

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • A year in a day. Its entire year is over in 19.5 hours. Birthdays here would come round faster than meals.

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 3 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 15.8 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Properties

controversial
yes
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Orbital Brightness Modulation
discovery year
2014
dist ly
5456.3942
host star teff
27500
mag
15.829
name
KIC 10001893 d
orbital period days
0.8116
sys num planets
3
sys num stars
1

About KIC 10001893 d

KIC 10001893 d is an epic exoplanet. It lies about 5,456.4 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 15.83, completes an orbit every 0.81 days and belongs to a system of 3 known planets.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 15.83, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, KIC 10001893 d 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 KIC 10001893 d is an epic exoplanet

KIC 10001893 d scores 58 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 20 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 7 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Ultra-short period, Multi-planet system, Found by Kepler, Orbits a hot blue-white star and Disputed — it may not be there at all — 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.