Gliese 682 b
Planet· orbits Gliese 682
Gliese 682 b - a super-Earth (minimum mass ~4.4 Earth) orbiting near the warm inner edge of the habitable zone every 17 days. RV-only: minimum mass, model-estimate size, never imaged.
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Key facts
Minimum mass
2.63 × 10²⁵ kg
4.4 M⊕
Year
17.48 Earth days
Distance from Gliese 682
11,967,830 km
Science
Physical
- Minimum mass (m·sin i)
- 2.63 × 10²⁵ kg · 4.4 M⊕
- Radial-velocity detection measures m·sin i; the true mass depends on the unknown orbital inclination.
- Radius
- Not measured
- No transit — radius is a model estimate for a ~4.4-Earth-mass world; true size unknown.
Orbital
- Semi-major axis
- 11,967,830 km
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (radial-velocity orbit)
- Eccentricity
- 0.08
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (radial-velocity orbit)
- Inclination
- 0.00 °
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (radial-velocity orbit)
- Orbital period
- 17.5 days
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (radial-velocity orbit)
- Perihelion
- 11,010,403 km
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Aphelion
- 12,925,256 km
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Mean orbital velocity
- 49.8 km/s
- Computed from the orbital elements
Composition
- Bulk composition
- A super-Earth of minimum mass ~4.4 Earth near the warm edge of the habitable zone; never imaged.
- Surface appearance
- Appearance based on ESO/M. Kornmesser's artist's concept. No spacecraft has imaged this world, so its real appearance is unknown — The surface shown is an artistic representation, shown only in Visual mode; Realism shows a plain spectral colour.
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 0.312 S⊕ · 31% of the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from Gliese 682's luminosity and the orbital distance (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1).
- Equilibrium temperature
- 282 K (9 °C)
- Computed model value for its orbit near the warm inner habitable zone — not measured.
Discovery & history
- Method
- Radial-velocity detection (stellar wobble)
- Name
- Designated 'b' under the IAU convention that letters a star's planets 'b', 'c', 'd'... in the order they are discovered (the star itself is the unwritten 'a').
One of two planets reported in 2014 from HARPS radial-velocity data.
Images
No official imagery available — this object has never been visited and no officially-licensed depiction exists.