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Transit · 2020

EPIC 201170410.02

This world receives 10.3× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 6.8 days; the light you see left it 437 years ago.

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Size
1 × Earth 
A year
6.8 days0.0349 AU
Temperature
227 °C500 K

About this world

EPIC 201170410.02 is an Earth-sized planet orbiting EPIC 201170410, a cool red dwarf 437 light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 6.8 days at 0.035 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 500 K (227 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

It was discovered in 2020 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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