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Uncommon exoplanet 25 EP

TYC 4282-00605-1 b

RA 343.8721° · Dec 62.2392° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
25 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Hot Jupiter +10
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 25

9 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Hot Jupiter · +10

Trivia

Hard to believe

  • Denser than iron. It is packed tighter than solid iron — whatever it is made of, it is not ordinary rock.

What it actually is

  • What it is made of. Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

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 10.5 you'll want a small backyard telescope.
  • Never sets. So far north that from Britain, Canada or northern Europe it never dips below the horizon — it is up every clear night of the year.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around September — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

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

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 26.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

density gcc
9.87
diameter km
158176.88
discovery facility
Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
discovery method
Radial Velocity
discovery year
2017
dist ly
1513.7813
eccentricity
0.28
eq temp k
1285.1
host star teff
4300
insolation
456.431
mag
10.465
mass earth
3426.2074
name
TYC 4282-00605-1 b
orbital period days
101.54
radius earth
12.4
semi major au
0.422
sys num planets
1
sys num stars
1

About TYC 4282-00605-1 b

TYC 4282-00605-1 b is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 1,513.8 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 10.46, has an equilibrium temperature near 1,285 K and spans roughly 12.4 Earth radii.

Denser than Earth — a solid world of rock and iron, with no meaningful atmosphere to speak of by mass.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 10.46, a small backyard telescope will bring it into view.

Like any astronomical target, TYC 4282-00605-1 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 TYC 4282-00605-1 b is an uncommon exoplanet

TYC 4282-00605-1 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, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Gas giant and Hot Jupiter — 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.