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Uncommon exoplanet 27 EP

11 UMi b

RA 229.2746° · Dec 71.8239° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
27 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 33 pts → Rare
  • Denser than iron +18
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Gas giant +4
Total score 27

6 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Gas giant · +4
  • Denser than iron · +18

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. ≈ 7.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 638.2 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 4087 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 409 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1617.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 817 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 516 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 12.3× the width of Earth.
  • Volume. About 1861 Earths could fit inside it.
  • Mass. Roughly 4685× Earth's mass — about 14.7 Jupiters.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 31.0× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Density. Denser than solid iron.
  • Temperature. Around 623°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

  • Discovery. Found by Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg using the radial velocity method.

Properties

density gcc
13.8
discovery facility
Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg
discovery method
Radial Velocity
dist ly
408.742
eccentricity
0.08
eq temp k
896.43
insolation
114.8502
mass earth
4684.8142
name
11 UMi b
orbital period days
516.22
radius earth
12.3
sys num planets
1
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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.