Q47471235
Sign in to saveK2-138, also designated EPIC 245950175 or EE-1, is a large early K-type main sequence star with a system of at least 6 planets discovered by citizen scientists. Four were found in the first two days of the Exoplanet Explorers project on Zooniverse in early April 2017, while two more were revealed in further analysis. The system is about away in the constellation Aquarius, within K2 Campaign 12.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Distance
- 660 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000003902707529368499
- Coordinates
- RA 348.9490° · Dec -10.8497°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Distance from Earth
- 183
- Radius
- 0.86
- Mass
- 0.93
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- effective temperature
- 5378
- apparent magnitude
- 12.022232
- metallicity
- 0.16
- radial velocity
- 1.57
- parallax
- 4.925
- epoch
- J2000.0
- catalog code
- EPIC 245950175
- right ascension
- 348.9490358616
- surface gravity
- 34100
- luminosity
- 0.5169639
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -1.08
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.675
- spectral class
- K1 V
- declination
- -10.84969318369
- Commons category
- K2-138
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Planetary system
- See also
- Note
- References
K2-138, also designated EPIC 245950175 or EE-1, is a large early K-type main sequence star with a system of at least 6 planets discovered by citizen scientists. Four were found in the first two days of the Exoplanet Explorers project on Zooniverse in early April 2017, while two more were revealed in further analysis. The system is about away in the constellation Aquarius, within K2 Campaign 12.
==Planetary system==
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