Exoplanet
K2-242 b
356.28 light-years
- Discovery
- Transit · 2018
- Radius
- 2.54 (+0.21 / −0.19) Earth radii
- Mass
- 6.99 Earth masses
- Orbital period
- 6.5139 (+8.2 × 10⁻⁴ / −8.3 × 10⁻⁴) days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0494 (+4 × 10⁻⁴ / −4 × 10⁻⁴) AU
- Equilibrium temperature
- 416 (+8 / −8) 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