About K2-172 b
K2-172 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 814.5 light-years from Earth, spans roughly 1.67 Earth radii, weighs about 3.42 Earth masses and completes an orbit every 14.32 days.
One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Common exoplanet 19 EP
K2-172 b
RA 335.3081° · Dec -12.5570° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 3 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 19
5 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Super-Earth · +8
- Multi-planet system · +6
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 14.3 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 8145 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 815 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1211.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1629 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 14.3 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.7× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 4.6 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 3.4× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.2× your Earth weight standing here.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 4.06
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 814.5485
- mass earth
- 3.42
- name
- K2-172 b
- orbital period days
- 14.3169
- radius earth
- 1.6661
- sys num planets
- 2
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, K2-172 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 K2-172 b is a common exoplanet
K2-172 b scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 5 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth and Multi-planet system — 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.