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Kepler-138 e

RA 290.3814° · Dec 43.2931° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 2 badges
11 pts · Trash
Trash 15 pts → Common
  • Multi-planet system +6
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 11

4 more points to reach Common.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +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. ≈ 3.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 340.5 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 2181 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 218 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1808.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 436 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 38.2 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. Around 80% of Earth's width.
  • Mass. About 0.4× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.7× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. A surprisingly temperate 19°C average.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the transit timing variations method.

Cosmic context

  • Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc
4.67
discovery facility
Multiple Observatories
discovery method
Transit Timing Variations
dist ly
218.0757
eccentricity
0.112
eq temp k
292
insolation
1.73
mass earth
0.43
name
Kepler-138 e
orbital period days
38.23
radius earth
0.797
sys num planets
4
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Sky imagery and survey data courtesy of Aladin Lite & CDS, Strasbourg. Object data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, JPL Small-Body Database, and the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.