Enaiposha
GJ 1214 b
IAU name «Enaiposha» — Kenya, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- GJ 1214
- Distance from Earth
- 14.6427 pc (≈ 47.8 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 2.733
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 8.41
- Orbital period
- 1.5804 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.01505 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0062
- Equilibrium temperature
- 567 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,009
- Discovery facility
- MEarth Project
- Host spectral type
- M4 V
- Host temperature
- 3,101 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.2162
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.182
- Host brightness
- 15.1 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 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 48 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1978 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 2.7 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 1.6 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.