:INFO Terrestrial around K2-137 It is 0.64 times Earth's radius, closest in size to Mars. A year there lasts 4.3 hours. :COUNTER 4.3 hours: one full year, start to finish :STATS [icon:TARGET] Radius | 0.64 Earth radii [icon:CLOCK] One year | 4.3 hours [icon:STAR] Host star | K2-137 at 3697 K [icon:USERS] Distance | 322 light-years [icon:TRENDING_DOWN] Starlight blocked | 0.041% at each transit :PATH What the dip tells you How deep the star dims fixes the planet's size relative to it. :CHECKLIST Known and unknown, as the archive has it [ ] A measured radius. Yes. [ ] A measured mass. No. [ ] A density, the one clue to composition. No. [ ] An orbital distance. No. [ ] An observed temperature. No. [ ] An eccentricity, so the orbit shape is known. No. :NOTE The detection is a shadow crossing a disc. Shadows have no weight, which is the whole reason the mass column is empty. :NOTE Found by K2 in 2017, the second life of the Kepler spacecraft after two of its reaction wheels failed and it could no longer hold a fixed stare. :LINK https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/K2-137%20b NASA Exoplanet Archive: source data, including the values not used here