HD 69830 c
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- HD 69830
- Distance from Earth
- 12.5591 pc (≈ 41 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 3.46
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 11.8
- Orbital period
- 31.56 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.186 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.13
- Equilibrium temperature
- 567.04 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,006
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- K0V
- Host temperature
- 5,385 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.886947
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.86
- Host brightness
- 5.96 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 41 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1985 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 3.5 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 31.6 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.