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K2-251 b

479.55 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2018
Radius
2.35 (+0.26 / −0.21) Earth radii
Mass
6.12 Earth masses
Orbital period
9.3008 (+3.32 × 10⁻³ / −3.21 × 10⁻³) days
Semi-major axis
0.0694 (+5 × 10⁻⁴ / −5 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
437 (+9 / −9) K
Mass provenance
M-R relationship

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

NASA archive record and references ↗

Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00