Goldilocks super-Earth orbiting Gliese 163
Gliese 163 c 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(announced) Radial velocity (HARPS ) 0.12536 ± 0.0001 AU (18,754,000 ± 15,000 km) 25.631 ± 0.0235 d Star Gliese 163 2.43 [ 1] R 🜨 Mass 7.3[ 1] M E Temperature 277 K[ 2]
Gliese 163 c () or Gl 163 c is a potentially habitable exoplanet ,[ 3] [ 4] habitable zone of M dwarf star Gliese 163 .[ 5]
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 ,[ 3] [ 4] super-Earth (a planet of roughly 1 to 10 Earth masses).[ 4] [ 6]
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Gliese 163 c
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