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Common exoplanet 19 EP

K2-270 b

RA 131.2666° · Dec 13.5497° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges
19 pts · Common
Common 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. ≈ 16.1 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 1.4 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
  • At 10% light speed. ≈ 9149 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
  • Distance. 915 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

  • Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1111.

Saying hello

  • Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 1830 years round-trip.

Standing on it

  • A year here. A full year lasts just 1.5 Earth days.

By the numbers

  • Size. About 1.4× the width of Earth.
  • Mass. About 2.5× the mass of Earth.
  • Your weight. You'd weigh about 1.3× your Earth weight standing here.
  • Temperature. Around 930°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

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
5.19
discovery facility
K2
discovery method
Transit
dist ly
914.9263
eq temp k
1203
insolation
497.0717
mass earth
2.48
name
K2-270 b
orbital period days
1.5431
radius earth
1.38
sys num planets
2
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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.