Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.30 Earth radii
A mass of 5.90 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.12 g
An orbital period of 11.811 days
Distance from Earth 1,832.77 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.734
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 32,320,812 years

1 sibling around EPIC 212624936

EPIC 212624936 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet	Type	Radius (R⊕)	Mass (M⊕)	Period (d)	Eq. T (K)	Year
EPIC 212624936 b	Rocky Terrestrial	1.20	1.87	0.579	—	2021
EPIC 212624936 c this	Sub-Neptune	2.30	5.90	11.811	—	2021

EPIC 212624936 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.30 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.205 R♃

Mass

5.90 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.019 M♃

Density

2.66 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.12 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.734

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021

Method Transit

Facility K2

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1499of 1978

top 75.7%

This planet

2.30R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-328 b 2.30 R⊕ Kepler-156 b 2.30 R⊕ GJ 536 c 2.30 R⊕

Metric	Earth	EPIC 212624936 c	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.30	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	5.90	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.66	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.12	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 2764004

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 3614661419960402944

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 3614661419960402944

System

EPIC 212624936

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.300 R⊕ · percentile 24 / cohort 1978

Mass 5.900 M⊕ · percentile 23 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 11.81 d · percentile 41 / cohort 1946

Distance 561.93 pc · percentile 50 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.734 · percentile 95 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

11.811 days

Semi-major axis

— AU

Eccentricity

—

Inclination

90.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 11.81 Earth days (3.2% of a terrestrial year).

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.072 %

Duration

2.064 h

Rp / R★

0.022600

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,457,233.7871

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 722 ppm lasting ≈ 2.06 h.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.734

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Adams et al. 2021

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2021-08

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2021 at K2 (12 shown).

EPIC 220492298 b · Rocky Terrestrial EPIC 206042996 c · Rocky Terrestrial EPIC 212624936 b · Rocky Terrestrial EPIC 206024342 c · Super-Earth EPIC 201427007 b · Super-Earth K2-332 b · Sub-Neptune EPIC 206024342 d · Sub-Neptune K2-345 b · Sub-Neptune K2-349 b · Super-Earth K2-343 c · Sub-Neptune K2-346 b · Sub-Neptune K2-336 b · Rocky Terrestrial

Host System: EPIC 212624936

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,765 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

—

Stellar Radius

0.930 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.000 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.39

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.400 dex

Stellar density

1.855 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

561.93 parsec

Light-years 1,832.77 ly

V-band magnitude

13.98 mag

Voyager-speed travel 32,320,812 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.751 mas

Total Proper Motion

34.578 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-31.24 mas/yr

PM Declination

14.81 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = -0.847 · y = -0.502 · z = -0.174

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 210.63762° · Dec -10.02369°

Galactic ℓ, b

330.234° · 49.042°

Ecliptic λ, β

212.007° · 2.288°

HTM-20 index

-1105618179