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Transit · 2019

EPIC 201238110 b

This world receives 1.71× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 28.2 days; the light you see left it 519 years ago.

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Size
1.9 × Earth 
A year
28.2 days0.135 AU
Temperature
46 °C319 K

About this world

EPIC 201238110 b is a super-Earth orbiting EPIC 201238110, a cool red dwarf 519 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.9 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 28.2 days at 0.13 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 319 K (46 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2019 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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