EPIC 212624936

Planetary system · 1832.8 light-years away

EPIC 212624936 is 1,833 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,765 K star; the first was found in 2021 by transit (K2).

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Worth knowing

EPIC 212624936 b goes round its star every 13.9 hours, 152 times as often as Mercury goes round the Sun.

Where the archive gives only a period or only an orbit size, the other is worked out from Kepler’s third law with the star’s mass.

The star

Surface temperature5,765 K
Mass1 solar masses
Radius0.93 solar radii
Luminosity0.7521 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude13.976
Distance from the Sun1832.8 light-years (561.9 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 210.6376°, Dec -10.0237°
ConstellationVirgo

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
EPIC 212624936 b13.9 hours0.0136 AU from Kepler’s law1.2 R⊕1.87 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2021
EPIC 212624936 c11.8 days0.102 AU from Kepler’s law2.3 R⊕5.9 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2021

Values are the NASA Exoplanet Archive’s composite parameters. A radius marked estimated comes from a mass–radius relation; a mass marked minimum is M sin i. Planet sizes and colours in the 3D view are renderings: none of these worlds has been photographed as more than a point of light.

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