Epic exoplanet 50 EP
Kepler-58 e
RA 296.3586° · Dec 39.1152° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Denser than iron +18
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 50
18 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Super-Earth · +8
- Denser than iron · +18
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 55.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 4.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 31.6 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 3161 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 6323 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 4.5 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 4.2 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 598× Earth's mass — about 1.9 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 230.6× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. Around 939°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 131
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 3161.2736
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 1212
- insolation
- 511.6
- mass earth
- 597.796
- name
- Kepler-58 e
- orbital period days
- 4.4581
- radius earth
- 1.61
- sys num planets
- 4