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K2-288Bb
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K2-288Bb (previously designated EPIC 210693462 b) is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of K2-288B, a low-mass M-dwarf star in a binary star system in the constellation of Taurus about 226 light-years from Earth. It was discovered by citizen scientists while analysing data from the Kepler space telescope's K2 mission, and was announced on 7 January 2019. K2-288 is the third transiting planet system identified by the Exoplanet Explorers program, after the six planets of K2-138 and the three planets of K2-233.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 214 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 55.4434° · Dec 18.2688°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Taurus
- Distance from Earth
- 226
- Radius
- 0.152
- Orbital period
- 31.393463
- Image
- PIA23004 K2-288Bb (Artist's Illustration).jpg
Show 13 more facts
- time of discovery or invention
- 2019-01-00
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- EPIC 210693462.01
- orbital inclination
- 89.81
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.164
- discovery method
- transit method
- temperature
- 226.0
- parallax
- 15.2166
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 185.476
- declination component of proper motion
- -74.070
- right ascension
- 55.4442857
- declination
- 18.2684913
- Commons category
- K2-288 B b
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Characteristics
- Mass, radius, and temperature
- Orbit and rotation
- Host stars
- Potential habitability
- See also
- References
- External links
K2-288Bb (previously designated EPIC 210693462 b) is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of K2-288B, a low-mass M-dwarf star in a binary star system in the constellation of Taurus about 226 light-years from Earth. It was discovered by citizen scientists while analysing data from the Kepler space telescope's K2 mission, and was announced on 7 January 2019. K2-288 is the third transiting planet system identified by the Exoplanet Explorers program, after the six planets of K2-138 and the three planets of K2-233.
K2-288Bb is likely to be in the habitable zone of its host star, and thus may be capable of supporting life, though the planet's composition is unknown.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “K2-288Bb” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.