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Uncommon exoplanet 25 EP

TOI-6002 b

RA 299.6143° · Dec 32.2872° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Orbits a red dwarf +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by TESS +4
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Found by TESS · +4
  • Orbits a red dwarf · +8

Trivia

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.
  • What it is made of. Its density says rock, though lighter than Earth's mix: probably less iron, or a thick shell of water and ice over the top.

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 14.6 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. 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).

Properties

density gcc
4.11
diameter km
21047.73
discovery facility
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2024
dist ly
104.4567
eccentricity
0.15
eq temp k
321.4
host star teff
3229
inclination
89.68
insolation
1.6823
mag
14.6
mass earth
3.36
name
TOI-6002 b
orbital period days
10.9048
radius earth
1.65
semi major au
0.0572
spect
M3.5+/-0.5
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TOI-6002 b

TOI-6002 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 104.5 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 14.6, has spectral type M3.5+/-0.5 and has an equilibrium temperature near 321 K.

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 14.6, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, TOI-6002 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 TOI-6002 b is an uncommon exoplanet

TOI-6002 b scores 25 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth, Found by TESS and Orbits a red dwarf — 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.