Epic exoplanet 46 EP
Kepler-11 b
RA 297.1151° · Dec 41.9091° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 6 badgesEpic 68 pts → Anomaly
- Richly packed system +14
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Super-Earth +8
- Multi-planet system +6
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 46
22 more points to reach Anomaly.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Super-Earth · +8
- Multi-planet system · +6
- Richly packed system · +14
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
What makes it special
- Packed system. Crammed into a system of five or more planets.
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 37 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 3.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 21.1 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 2108 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. Its light left before the last ice age ended.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 4216 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 10.3 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 1.8× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 5.8 Earths could fit inside it.
- Mass. About 1.9× the mass of Earth.
- Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.6× your Earth weight standing here.
- Temperature. Around 576°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Cosmic context
- Crowded system. One of at least 6 planets orbiting its star.
Properties
- density gcc
- 1.72
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 2108.0963
- eccentricity
- 0.045
- eq temp k
- 849
- insolation
- 146.36
- mass earth
- 1.9
- name
- Kepler-11 b
- orbital period days
- 10.3039
- radius earth
- 1.8
- sys num planets
- 6