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Transit · 2019

EPIC 212587672 b

This world receives 75.7× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 15.3 days; the light you see left it 1.04 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Earth 
A year
15.3 days0.12 AU
Temperature
483 °C756 K

About this world

EPIC 212587672 b is a super-Earth orbiting EPIC 212587672, a yellow-white F-type star 1.04 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 15.3 days at 0.12 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 756 K (483 °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 212587672 has 2 known planets; the others are EPIC 212587672 c.

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