Exoplanet
K2-79 b
835 light-years
- Discovery
- Transit · 2016
- Radius
- 4.15 (+0.19 / −0.18) Earth radii
- Mass
- 5.9 (+2.6 / −2.6) Earth masses
- Orbital period
- 10.995 (+1.3 × 10⁻⁵ / −1.6 × 10⁻⁵) days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0987 (+1.5 × 10⁻³ / −1.6 × 10⁻³) AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,033 (+30 / −31) 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