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K2-246 b

2,294.89 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2018
Radius
3.49 (+0.25 / −0.21) Earth radii
Mass
12 Earth masses
Orbital period
5.7692 (+8.1 × 10⁻⁴ / −8.2 × 10⁻⁴) days
Semi-major axis
0.0602 (+4 × 10⁻⁴ / −4 × 10⁻⁴) AU
Equilibrium temperature
977 (+19 / −18) 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