K2-348

Planetary system · 658.4 light-years away

K2-348 is 658 light-years from the Sun. The NASA Exoplanet Archive lists 2 planets around this 5,077 K star; the first was found in 2021 by transit (K2).

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Worth knowing

K2-348 b goes round its star every 4.69 days, 19 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 temperature5,077 K
Mass0.83 solar masses
Radius0.85 solar radii
Luminosity0.4088 times the Sun
Apparent magnitude12.572
Distance from the Sun658.4 light-years (201.9 parsecs)
Position (J2000)RA 130.8783°, Dec 24.4230°
ConstellationCancer

Planets (2)

PlanetYearOrbitRadiusMassFound
K2-348 b4.69 days0.0515 AU from Kepler’s law3.26 R⊕10.7 M⊕ estimatedTransit, 2021
K2-348 c12.6 days0.0993 AU from Kepler’s law2.67 R⊕7.61 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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