Exoplanet · gas giant
HD 215497 c
HD 215497 c is a gas giant orbiting the star HD 215497. Its year lasts 566 Earth days. It was discovered in 2009 by the Radial Velocity method.
| Host star | HD 215497 |
|---|---|
| Distance | 132.2 light-years (40.5 pc) |
| Orbital period | 566 days |
| Orbital radius | 1.31 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.470 |
| Radius | 13 R⊕ · 1.16 R♃ |
| Mass | 111 M⊕ · 0.35 M♃ |
| Density | 0.278 g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | 0.658 × Earth |
| Equilibrium temperature | 199 K (-75 °C) |
| Stellar flux received | 0.227 × Earth |
| Discovery method | Radial Velocity |
| Discovery year | 2009 |
| Discovered by | La Silla Observatory |
Habitable zone
Beyond the habitable zone: it receives only %23 of the light the Earth does, a frozen world.
Its star in the sky
In the planet's sky its star is a disc 0.35° across: 0.65 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.
In the sky
Too faint for the naked eye (magnitude 8.96); binoculars will find it. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 33° N. South of latitude 33° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in August, the best time to observe it.
Light's journey
The light you see tonight set out around the year 1894. At the speed of Voyager 1, the fastest craft leaving the Solar System (16.9 km per second), the trip would take 2.3 million years.
Planets in the same system
- HD 215497 b 3.93-day orbit
Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.