TRAPPIST-1 c

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Description: TRAPPIST-1c, also designated as 2MASS J23062928-0502285 c, is a mainly rocky exoplanet orbiting around the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, located 40.7 light-years (12.5 parsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. It is the third most massive and third largest planet of the system, with about 131% the mass and 110% the radius of Earth. Its density indicates a primarily rocky composition, and observations by the James Webb Space Telescope announced in 2023 suggests against a thick CO2 atmosphere, however this does not exclude a thick abiotic oxygen-dominated atmosphere as is hypothesized to be common around red dwarf stars.

Physical Properties

Mass (Jupiter mass): 0.00411542823483365 MJ

Radius (Jupiter radius): 0.098 RJ

Density: 5.463993 g/cm³

Equilibrium Temperature: 339.7 K

Orbital Parameters

Orbital Period: 2.421937 days

Semi-major Axis: 0.0158 AU

Eccentricity: 0.00654

Inclination: 89.778°

Host Star Properties

Host Star: TRAPPIST-1

Spectral Type: Unknown

Temperature: 2566.0 K

Stellar Mass: 0.09 M

Stellar Radius: 0.12 R

Discovery Information

Planet Letter: c

Object ID: 3.11877

Host ID: 2.103803

Discovery Date: 2016-05

Discovery Year: 2016

Discovery Method: Transit

Discovery Locale: Ground

Discovery Facility: La Silla Observatory

Discovery Instrument: TRAPPISTCAM

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