Common exoplanet 16 EP
Kepler-10 d
RA 285.6793° · Dec 50.2415° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 16
8 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Multi-planet system · +6
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 10.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 944.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 6050 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 605 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1421.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1210 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 151 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 3.5× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 42.5 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 12× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 114°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Roque de los Muchachos Observatory using the radial velocity method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 3 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.55
- discovery facility
- Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 605.0389
- eccentricity
- 0.19
- eq temp k
- 387
- insolation
- 3.9198
- mass earth
- 12
- name
- Kepler-10 d
- orbital period days
- 151.06
- radius earth
- 3.49
- sys num planets
- 3