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Transit · 2019

EPIC 206317286 b

This world receives 453× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 1.58 days; the light you see left it 1.03 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.96 × Earth 
A year
1.58 days0.0237 AU
Temperature
1,012 °C1,286 K

About this world

EPIC 206317286 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting EPIC 206317286, an orange dwarf 1.03 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.96 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 1.58 days at 0.024 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,286 K (1,012 °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 2019 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. EPIC 206317286 has 2 known planets; the others are EPIC 206317286 c.

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