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Transit · 2017

K2-110 b

This world receives 27.7× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 13.9 days; the light you see left it 380 years ago.

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Size
2.6 × Earth 
A year
13.9 days0.102 AU
Temperature
365 °C638 K

About this world

K2-110 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-110, an orange dwarf (type K3V) 380 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.6 times the size of Earth and holds 16 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 13.9 days at 0.1 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 638 K (365 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2017 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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