Common exoplanet 15 EP

HD 140901 b

RA 236.8690° · Dec -37.9172° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 3 badges

15 pts · Common

Common 24 pts → Uncommon

Multi-planet system +6
Confirmed exoplanet +5
Neptune-like +4

Total score 15

9 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

Confirmed exoplanet · +5
Neptune-like · +4
Multi-planet system · +6

Trivia

Could we get there?

Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 874.2 thousand years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
Fastest probe ever. ≈ 77.7 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
At 10% light speed. ≈ 497 years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
Distance. 49.7 light-years from Earth.

Look-back time

Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 1976.

Saying hello

Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 99.5 years round-trip.

Standing on it

A year here. A full year lasts just 9 Earth days.

By the numbers

Size. About 4.1× the width of Earth.
Volume. About 67.4 Earths could fit inside it.
Mass. About 15.6× the mass of Earth.
Your weight. You'd weigh about 0.9× your Earth weight standing here.
Temperature. Around 631°C — hotter than a self-cleaning oven.

How we found it

Discovery. Found by Multiple Observatories using the radial velocity method.

Cosmic context

Crowded system. One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

Properties

density gcc: 1.27
discovery facility: Multiple Observatories
discovery method: Radial Velocity
dist ly: 49.7479
eccentricity: 0.472
eq temp k: 904.37
insolation: 109.3426
mass earth: 15.5736
name: HD 140901 b
orbital period days: 9.0238
radius earth: 4.07
sys num planets: 2

About HD 140901 b

HD 140901 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 49.7 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 904 K, spans roughly 4.07 Earth radii and weighs about 15.57 Earth masses.

One of at least 2 planets orbiting its star.

How to see it

Like any astronomical target, HD 140901 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why HD 140901 b is a common exoplanet

HD 140901 b scores 15 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 9 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Neptune-like and Multi-planet system — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.