Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.65 Earth radii
A mass of 3.36 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.23 g
An orbital period of 10.905 days
Semi-major axis 0.0572 AU
Equilibrium temperature 321 K (48 °C)
Distance from Earth 104.46 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.823
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 1,842,093 years
Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

TOI-6002 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.65 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.147 R♃

Mass

3.36 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.011 M♃

Density

4.11 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.23 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.823

HZ Position Inner

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2024

Method Transit

Facility Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)

Telescope 0.1 m TESS Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#485of 1176

top 41.2%

This planet

1.65R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-400 b 1.65 R⊕ K2-343 b 1.65 R⊕ Kepler-360 b 1.65 R⊕

Metric	Earth	TOI-6002 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.65	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.36	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.11	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.23	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	1.68	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 102734241

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2034047656176989952

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2034047656176989952

System

TOI-6002

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.650 R⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.360 M⊕ · percentile 52 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 10.90 d · percentile 67 / cohort 1164

Distance 32.03 pc · percentile 7 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.823 · percentile 91 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

10.905 days

Semi-major axis

0.0572 AU

Eccentricity

0.150

Inclination

89.68 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 10.90 Earth days (3.0% of a terrestrial year) on a mildly elliptical path at a mean orbital distance of 0.0572 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.387 %

Duration

1.657 h

Impact parameter b

0.260

Rp / R★

0.062200

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,458,692.7639

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 3,870 ppm lasting ≈ 1.66 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.062200

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

50.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.260

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,458,692.7639

Long. of periastron (ω)

-160.00°

Angular separation (arcsec)

1.79000

Eq. Temperature

321K

(48 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1.68

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.823

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Ghachoui et al. 2024

Instrument

TESS CCD Array

Publication

2024-10

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2024 at Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) (12 shown).

Gliese 12 b · Rocky Terrestrial TOI-5713 b · Super-Earth TOI-4336 A b · Sub-Neptune TOI-406.01 · Sub-Neptune TOI-1224 c · Sub-Neptune LHS 1678 d · Rocky Terrestrial TOI-2088 b · Sub-Neptune TOI-2120 b · Sub-Neptune TOI-1806.01 · Sub-Neptune TOI-4633 c · Sub-Neptune TOI-260 b · Super-Earth TOI-663 d · Super-Earth

Host System: TOI-6002

Spectral Class

M-type red dwarf

Effective Temperature

3,229 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.35 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.243 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.210 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.18

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.989 dex

Stellar density

20.600 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-10.20 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

32.03 parsec

Light-years 104.46 ly

V-band magnitude

14.60 mag

Voyager-speed travel 1,842,093 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 6 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

31.195 mas

Total Proper Motion

348.638 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-38.00 mas/yr

PM Declination

-346.56 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.418 · y = -0.735 · z = 0.534

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 299.61425° · Dec 32.28717°

Galactic ℓ, b

68.857° · 1.529°

Ecliptic λ, β

312.128° · 51.484°

HTM-20 index

-2135336603