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Transit · 2018

K2-264 c

This world receives 2.59× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 19.7 days; the light you see left it 605 years ago.

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Size
2.7 × Earth 
A year
19.7 days0.113 AU
Temperature
58 °C331 K

About this world

K2-264 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-264, a cool red dwarf (type M2.5V) 605 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 19.7 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun, on a strongly elongated orbit (e = 0.45).

Its equilibrium temperature is about 331 K (58 °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 2018 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-264 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-264 b.

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