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Mini-neptune around TOI-1246
It is 3.51 times Earth's radius, closest in size to Neptune, and 14.5 times Earth's mass, at 1.83 g/cm3, less dense than Earth. A year there lasts 37.93 days, on an orbit 2 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. Its equilibrium temperature is 464 K, hotter than any desert. The host star TOI-1246 runs at 5213 K with 0.89 times the Sun's mass.

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TOI-1246 from the inside out
1 0.049 AU
2 0.061 AU
3 0.132 AU
4 0.212 AU

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[icon:TARGET] Radius | 3.51 Earth radii
[icon:CHART] Mass | 14.5 Earth masses
[icon:FIRE] Equilibrium temperature | 464 K (measured)
[icon:CLOCK] One year | 37.93 days
[icon:BOLT] Orbit radius | 0.2120 AU
[icon:STAR] Host star | TOI-1246 at 5213 K
[icon:USERS] Distance | 553 light-years
[icon:TRENDING_DOWN] Starlight blocked | 0.138% at each transit

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What you get from the shadow
How deep the star dims fixes the planet's size relative to it.

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TOI-1246 has 4 known planets. Systems like this are the ones where architecture can be studied instead of guessed at.

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Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2022. TESS scans most of the sky in 27-day stretches, so it favours bright nearby stars and short orbits over the faint distant ones Kepler specialised in.

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Size from the shadow, mass from elsewhere. Most transiting planets never get the second half, and without it composition stays a guess.

:LINK
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/TOI-1246%20e
Every parameter ever published for TOI-1246 e, at the NASA Exoplanet Archive