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HD 23472 e

HD 23472 e is a Earth-sized rocky planet orbiting the star HD 23472. Its year lasts 7.91 Earth days. It was discovered in 2022 by the Transit method.

Host starHD 23472
Distance127.3 light-years (39.0 pc)
Orbital period7.91 days
Orbital radius0.068 AU
Eccentricity0.070
Radius0.818 R⊕ · 0.073 R♃
Mass0.72 M⊕ · 0.00227 M♃
Density7.5 g/cm³
Surface gravity1.08 × Earth
Equilibrium temperature723 K (450 °C)
Stellar flux received46.7 × Earth
Discovery methodTransit
Discovery year2022
Discovered byTransiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Habitable zone

Inside the inner edge of the habitable zone: it receives 46.7 times the light the Earth does, too hot to keep liquid water on its surface.

Its star in the sky

In the planet's sky its star is a disc 5.6° across: 10 times the Sun as we see it from Earth.

In the sky

A telescope is needed to see it: its apparent magnitude is 9.73. Visible from the whole Southern Hemisphere and north to latitude 27° N. South of latitude 27° S it never sets. It stands highest at midnight in November, the best time to observe it.

Light's journey

The light you see tonight set out around the year 1899. 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

Open in the simulation

Data: NASA Exoplanet Archive, PSCompPars. Its look in the simulation is a rendering based on the measured radius, mass and temperature.