Rare exoplanet 42 EP
Kepler-238 e
RA 287.8971° · Dec 40.6378° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Richly packed system +14
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Neptune-like +4
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 42
4 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Neptune-like · +4
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Richly packed system · +14
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Packed system. Crammed into a system of five or more planets.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 103.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 9.2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 58.7 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 5867 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 11.7 thousand years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 23.7 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 5.6× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 176 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 170× Earth's mass — about 0.5 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 5.4× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Less dense than water — drop it in a big enough ocean and it would float.
- Temperature. Around 458°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 5 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 0.54
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 5866.731
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 731
- insolation
- 98.461
- mass earth
- 169.7
- name
- Kepler-238 e
- orbital period days
- 23.654
- radius earth
- 5.6
- sys num planets
- 5