Uncommon exoplanet 29 EP
Kepler-159 c
RA 297.0702° · Dec 40.8687° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 5 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Sub-Neptune +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 29
4 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Sub-Neptune · +5
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 21.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.9 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 12.2 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1219 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 807.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2438 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 43.6 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 3.4× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 39.7 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 11.5× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.0× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A surprisingly temperate 2°C average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.59
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 1218.9885
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 275
- insolation
- 4.791
- mass earth
- 11.5
- name
- Kepler-159 c
- orbital period days
- 43.5958
- radius earth
- 3.41
- sys num planets
- 2