Anomaly exoplanet 76 EP

KIC 3526061 b

RA 285.1864° · Dec 38.6111° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges

76 pts · Anomaly

Anomaly 95 pts → Mythic

In the habitable zone +30
Denser than iron +18
Distant (>1000 ly) +10
Eccentric orbit +9
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Gas giant +4

Total score 76

19 more points to reach Mythic.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
In the habitable zone · +30
Gas giant · +4
Eccentric orbit · +9
Denser than iron · +18
Distant (>1000 ly) · +10

Trivia

What makes it special

Goldilocks zone. Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.
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. ≈ 23 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 13.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 1309 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 717.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2617 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts about 9.7 Earth years.

By the numbers

Size. About 12.1× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 1772 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. Roughly 5769× Earth's mass — about 18.2 Jupiters.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 39.4× your Earth weight standing here.
Density. Denser than solid iron.
Temperature. A frigid -25°C — colder than dry ice.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by McDonald Observatory using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

Wild orbit. Its highly elliptical path swings between scorching and frozen each lap.

Properties

density gcc: 17.9
discovery facility: McDonald Observatory
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 1308.6325
eccentricity: 0.85
eq temp k: 248.63
habitable zone: yes
insolation: 0.6208
mass earth: 5768.5856
name: KIC 3526061 b
orbital period days: 3552
radius earth: 12.1
sys num planets: 1

About KIC 3526061 b

KIC 3526061 b is an anomaly exoplanet. It lies about 1,308.6 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 249 K, spans roughly 12.1 Earth radii and weighs about 5,768.59 Earth masses.

Sits where it's neither too hot nor too cold — liquid water could exist.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, KIC 3526061 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 KIC 3526061 b is an anomaly exoplanet

KIC 3526061 b scores 76 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the anomaly tier. Another 19 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, In the habitable zone, Gas giant, Eccentric orbit, Denser than iron and Distant (>1000 ly) — 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.