GJ 667 C b
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- GJ 667 C
- Distance from Earth
- 7.244 pc (≈ 23.6 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 2.25
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 5.68
- Orbital period
- 7.203 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.050431 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.2
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,012
- Discovery facility
- La Silla Observatory
- Host spectral type
- M1.5 V
- Host temperature
- 3,350 K
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.33
- Host brightness
- 10.602 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 24 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 2002 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 2.3 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 7.2 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.