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Transit · 2022

K2-370 b

This world receives 428× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.14 days; the light you see left it 470 years ago.

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Size
2.7 × Earth 
A year
2.14 days0.0321 AU
Temperature
994 °C1,267 K

About this world

K2-370 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting K2-370, a yellow, Sun-like star (type G5V) 470 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.7 times the size of Earth and holds 11 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 2.14 days at 0.032 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,267 K (994 °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 2022 by transit with K2. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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