Uncommon exoplanet 32 EP
Kepler-37 e
RA 284.0593° · Dec 44.5184° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Denser than iron +18
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 32
1 more point to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Denser than iron · +18
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by Kepler · +3
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. ≈ 3.7 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 325.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 2085 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 208 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1818.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 417 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 51.2 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. Around 37% of Earth's width.
- Mass. About 8.1× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 59.2× your Earth weight standing here.
- Density. Denser than solid iron.
- Temperature. A scorching 128°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit timing variations method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 879
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit Timing Variations
- dist ly
- 208.4812
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 401
- insolation
- 7.6252
- mass earth
- 8.1
- name
- Kepler-37 e
- orbital period days
- 51.196
- radius earth
- 0.37
- sys num planets
- 4