Gliese 163 c

Gliese 163 c
Discovery
Discovered byEuropean HARPS team led by Xavier Bonfils
Discovery siteUJF-Grenoble/CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique of Grenoble, France.
Discovery dateSeptember 2012
September 20, 2012 (announced)
Radial velocity (HARPS)
Orbital characteristics
0.12536 ± 0.0001 AU (18,754,000 ± 15,000 km)
25.631 ± 0.0235 d
StarGliese 163
Physical characteristics
Mean radius
2.43 R🜨
Mass7.3 MEarth
Temperature277 K

Gliese 163 c (/ˈɡliːzə/) or Gl 163 c is a potentially habitable exoplanet, orbiting within the habitable zone of M dwarf star Gliese 163.

The parent star is 15.0 parsecs (approximately 49 light-years, or 465 trillion kilometers) from the Sun, in the constellation Dorado. Gliese 163 c is one of five planets discovered in the system. With a mass at least 7.2 times that of the Earth, it is classified as a super-Earth (a planet of roughly 1 to 10 Earth masses).

Size comparison
Earth Gliese 163 c
Exoplanet




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