61 Vir c
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- 61 Vir
- Distance from Earth
- 8.5033 pc (≈ 27.7 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Neptune-like
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 4.46
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 18.2
- Orbital period
- 38.021 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.2175 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.14
- Equilibrium temperature
- 565.87 K
- Discovery method
- Radial Velocity
- Discovery year
- 2,009
- Discovery facility
- Multiple Observatories
- Host spectral type
- G5 V
- Host temperature
- 5,577 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.963
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.942
- Host brightness
- 4.6955 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 28 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1998 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 4.5 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 38 Earth days — that is this planet's year.
Worked out from this object's official values.