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Radial velocity · 2020

GJ 3512 c

This world receives 2,000× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 6.44 years; the light you see left it 31 years ago.

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Size
1.3 × Jupiterestimated
A year
6.44 years1.73 AU
Temperature
−230 °C43 K

About this world

GJ 3512 c is a gas giant orbiting GJ 3512, a cool red dwarf (type M5.5V) 30.9 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.3 times the size of Jupiter (its size estimated from its mass), with at least 0.45 Jupiter masses (a minimum, measured by radial velocity). It completes an orbit every 6.44 years at 1.7 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 43 K (−230 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2020 by radial velocity with Multiple Observatories. The star wobbles toward and away from us, Doppler-shifting its spectrum. GJ 3512 has 2 known planets; the others are GJ 3512 b.

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