About HIP 97233 b
HIP 97233 b is a rare exoplanet. It lies about 333.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 354 K, spans roughly 12.1 Earth radii and weighs about 6,098.17 Earth masses.
Packed denser than solid iron.
Rare exoplanet 36 EP
HIP 97233 b
RA 296.4221° · Dec -0.6969° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesRare 46 pts → Epic
- Denser than iron +18
- Eccentric orbit +9
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
Total score 36
10 more points to reach Epic.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Eccentric orbit · +9
- Denser than iron · +18
Trivia
What makes it special
- Heavyweight. Packed denser than solid iron.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 5.9 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 520.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 3336 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 334 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1692.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 667 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts about 2.9 Earth years.
By the numbers
- Size. About 12.1× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 1772 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. Roughly 6098× Earth's mass — about 19.2 Jupiters.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 41.7× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. A scorching 81°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the radial velocity method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 18.9
- discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- dist ly
- 333.576
- eccentricity
- 0.63
- eq temp k
- 354.42
- insolation
- 2.5778
- mass earth
- 6098.1736
- name
- HIP 97233 b
- orbital period days
- 1062.2651
- radius earth
- 12.1
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, HIP 97233 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 HIP 97233 b is a rare exoplanet
HIP 97233 b scores 36 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 10 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Eccentric orbit and Denser than iron — 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.