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K2-72e
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K2-72e (also known by its EPIC designation EPIC 206209135.04), is a confirmed exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star K2-72, the outermost of four such planets discovered in the system by NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its "Second Light" mission. It is located about 217.1 light-years (66.56 parsecs, or nearly km) away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. The exoplanet was found by using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 217 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 334.6219° · Dec -9.6123°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- K2-72e
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison K2-72 e (ver 2).png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison between K2-72e (left) and the Earth.
- Planet.discoverer
- Crossfield et al.
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler Space Observatory
- Planet.discovered
- July 18, 2016
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.semimajor
- 0.106 AU
- Planet.period
- 24.159 d
- Planet.star
- K2-72
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.29
- Planet.mass
- ~2.21
via Wikipedia infobox
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Mass, radius, and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Habitability
- Discovery
- See also
- References
K2-72e (also known by its EPIC designation EPIC 206209135.04), is a confirmed exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star K2-72, the outermost of four such planets discovered in the system by NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its "Second Light" mission. It is located about 217.1 light-years (66.56 parsecs, or nearly km) away from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. The exoplanet was found by using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured.
==Characteristics==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “K2-72e” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.