Exoplanet
K2-42 b
1,294.56 light-years
- Discovery
- Transit · 2016
- Radius
- 2.15 (+0.24 / −0.24) Earth radii
- Mass
- 5.27 Earth masses
- Orbital period
- 6.688 (+9.3 × 10⁻⁴ / −9.3 × 10⁻⁴) days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0617 (+1.3 × 10⁻³ / −1.3 × 10⁻³) AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 718.09 (+25.57 / −25.57) 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