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Transit · 2016

K2-350 c

This world receives 47.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20 days; the light you see left it 1.6 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.7 × Earth 
A year
20 days0.143 AU
Temperature
414 °C687 K

About this world

K2-350 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-350, a yellow, Sun-like star 1.6 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 687 K (414 °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 2016 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. K2-350 has 2 known planets; the others are K2-350 b.

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