Trash exoplanet 10 EP
K2-159 b
RA 180.5409° · Dec -3.5809° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 2 badgesTrash 15 pts → Common
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
Total score 10
5 more points to reach Common.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 9.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 870.8 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 5577 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 558 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1468.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1115 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 12.4 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 2.3× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 11.5 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 5.7× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.1× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 411°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Properties
- density gcc
- 2.73
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 557.7202
- eq temp k
- 684
- insolation
- 49.2934
- mass earth
- 5.73
- name
- K2-159 b
- orbital period days
- 12.4221
- radius earth
- 2.26
- sys num planets
- 1