:INFO
Super-earth around TOI-6002
It is 1.65 times Earth's radius, closest in size to Earth. A year there lasts 10.90 days, on an orbit 7 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. Its equilibrium temperature is 321 K, hotter than any desert. The host star TOI-6002 runs at 3229 K with 0.21 times the Sun's mass.

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What this planet has and has not got
[ ] Inside the habitable zone, computed from the star's luminosity. Yes.
[ ] A measured mass, not just a radius. No.
[ ] A measured temperature rather than one derived from the star. Yes.
[ ] Any detection of an atmosphere. Not recorded in the archive.

:STATS
[icon:TARGET] Radius | 1.65 Earth radii
[icon:FIRE] Equilibrium temperature | 321 K (measured)
[icon:CLOCK] One year | 10.90 days
[icon:BOLT] Orbit radius | 0.0572 AU
[icon:STAR] Host star | TOI-6002 at 3229 K
[icon:USERS] Distance | 104 light-years
[icon:TRENDING_DOWN] Starlight blocked | 0.386% at each transit

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What a crossing measures
How deep the star dims fixes the planet's size relative to it.

:NOTE
Found by Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in 2024. 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.

:NOTE
Found by watching its star dim as it crossed in front. That measures size and not weight, which is why there is a radius here and no mass.

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:LINK
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/TOI-6002%20b
NASA Exoplanet Archive: source data, including the values not used here