Epic exoplanet 66 EP
Kepler-62 e
RA 283.2126° · Dec 45.3497° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- In the habitable zone +30
- Richly packed system +14
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 66
2 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- In the habitable zone · +30
- Super-Earth · +8
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Richly packed system · +14
- Found by Kepler · +3
Trivia
What makes it special
- Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.
- Packed system. Crammed into a system of five or more planets.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 17.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.5 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 9813 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 981 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1045.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1963 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 122 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 4.2 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 36× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 13.9× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A surprisingly temperate -3°C average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 5 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 981.3186
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 270
- habitable zone
- yes
- insolation
- 1.352
- mass earth
- 36
- name
- Kepler-62 e
- orbital period days
- 122.3874
- radius earth
- 1.61
- sys num planets
- 5