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GJ 581 e

20.54 light-years

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Discovery
Radial Velocity · 2009
Radius
1.38 Earth radii
Mass
2.48 (+0.7 / −0.42) Earth masses
Orbital period
3.1481 (+4 × 10⁻⁴ / −4 × 10⁻⁴) days
Semi-major axis
0.028 (+3 × 10⁻⁴ / −3 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
554.37 (+6.84 / −6.84) 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