Discovery | |
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Discovered by | European HARPS team led by Xavier Bonfils |
Discovery site | UJF-Grenoble/CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique of Grenoble, France. |
Discovery date | September 2012 September 20, 2012(announced) |
Radial velocity (HARPS) | |
Orbital characteristics | |
0.12536 ± 0.0001 AU (18,754,000 ± 15,000 km) | |
25.631 ± 0.0235d | |
Star | Gliese 163 |
Physical characteristics | |
2.43[1]R🜨 | |
Mass | 7.3[1]ME |
Temperature | 277 K[2] |
Gliese 163 c (/ˈɡliːzə/) orGl 163 c is a potentiallyhabitable exoplanet,[3][4] orbiting within thehabitable zone ofM dwarf starGliese 163.[5]
The parent star is 15.0 parsecs (approximately 49 light-years, or 465 trillion kilometers) from the Sun, in the constellationDorado.Gliese 163 c is one of five planets discovered in the system. With a mass at least 7.2 times that of theEarth,[3][4] it is classified as asuper-Earth (a planet of roughly 1 to 10 Earth masses).[4][6]
Earth | Gliese 163 c |
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