Wolf 1061 d
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- Wolf 1061
- Distance from Earth
- 4.3059 pc (≈ 14 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 2.69
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 7.7
- Orbital period
- 217.21 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.47 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.55
- Equilibrium temperature
- 130.24 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,015
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- M3.5
- Host temperature
- 3,342 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.307
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.294
- Host brightness
- 10.1 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 14 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2012 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 2.7 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 217.2 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.