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GJ 581 c

20.54 light-years

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Discovery
Radial Velocity · 2007
Radius
2.5 Earth radii
Mass
6.81 (+0.21 / −1.16) Earth masses
Orbital period
12.9211 (+8 × 10⁻⁴ / −7 × 10⁻⁴) days
Semi-major axis
0.0718 (+8 × 10⁻⁴ / −9 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
346.13 (+4.36 / −4.36) K
Mass provenance
Mass

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