K2-332 b

K2-332 b
Discovery
Discovery date2016
Orbital characteristics
Eccentricity<0.05
17.7 days
Physical characteristics
2.2 R🜨
Mass5.47 M🜨
Mean density
2.83 g/cm3
Temperature266 K

K2-332 b (also EPIC 211579112.01)[1][2] is a potentially habitable Super-Earth or Mini-Neptune exoplanet with a radius of 2.2 earths. It is in the empirical habitable zone, receiving 1.17 times the light that Earth gets from the sun. Its star, K2-332, is type M4V, with a temperature of ~3300 K.[3] It was detected using the transit method in 2016 and is 402 light-years away.[4]

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