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Transit · 2016

K2-19 d

This world receives 404× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.51 days; the light you see left it 945 years ago.

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Size
1 × Earth 
A year
2.51 days0.0348 AU
Temperature
985 °C1,258 K

About this world

K2-19 d is an Earth-sized planet orbiting K2-19, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G9) 945 light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Earth and holds 6.2 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 2.51 days at 0.035 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.44).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,258 K (985 °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 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-19 has 3 known planets; the others are K2-19 b and K2-19 c.

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