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Transit · 2016

K2-37 d

This world receives 41.3× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 14.1 days; the light you see left it 587 years ago.

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Size
2.3 × Earth 
A year
14.1 days0.11 AU
Temperature
373 °C646 K

About this world

K2-37 d is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-37, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G3V) 587 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.3 times the size of Earth and holds 13 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 14.1 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 646 K (373 °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. K2-37 has 3 known planets; the others are K2-37 b and K2-37 c.

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