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Transit · 2018

K2-201 c

This world receives 22.1× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 22.8 days; the light you see left it 646 years ago.

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Size
3.3 × Earth 
A year
22.8 days0.155 AU
Temperature
331 °C604 K

About this world

K2-201 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-201, a yellow, Sun-like star 646 light-years from Earth. It is about 3.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 22.8 days at 0.15 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 604 K (331 °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 2018 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-201 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-201 b.

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