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K2-43 b

595.35 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2016
Radius
4.51 (+0.44 / −0.19) Earth radii
Mass
18.5 Earth masses
Orbital period
3.4711 (+1.04 × 10⁻⁴ / −5.2 × 10⁻⁵) days
Semi-major axis
0.0378 (+6.3 × 10⁻⁴ / −6.3 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
939.3 (+37.7 / −18.5) 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