Uncommon exoplanet 29 EP
K2-187 e
RA 132.5236° · Dec 23.1925° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesUncommon 33 pts → Rare
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
Total score 29
4 more points to reach Rare.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Super-Earth · +8
- Multi-planet system · +6
- 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. ≈ 19 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.7 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 10.8 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1079 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 947.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2159 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 13.6 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.9× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 6.9 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 4.3× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.2× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. A scorching 425°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by K2 using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 4 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 3.42
- discovery facility
- K2
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 1079.3024
- eq temp k
- 698
- insolation
- 52.0501
- mass earth
- 4.27
- name
- K2-187 e
- orbital period days
- 13.6066
- radius earth
- 1.9
- sys num planets
- 4