Gliese 581 g

Exoplanet

Star: Gliese 581

Distance from the star: 0.13 AU

Basic characteristic

Mass: 2.2 M Earth

Other designations of this exoplanet
Wolf 562 g, HO Librae g, HO Lib g, BD−07°4003 g, GJ 581 g, HIP 74995 g, LFT 1195 g, LHS 394 g, LPM 564 g, LTT 6112 g, NLTT 39886 g, TYC 5594-1093-1 g, BD-07 4003 g

Comparison

When comparing to the Solar system planets, Gliese 581 g has 15 % of mass of Uranus and it orbits its star closer than Mercury orbits the Sun.

		Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune
	Mass	40	2.7	2.2	20	0.01	0.02	0.15	0.13
	Distance	0.33	0.18	0.13	0.09	0.02	0.01	0.01	0

Gliese 581 system structure

Exoplanet Gliese 581 g orbits star Gliese 581, which has lower mass than Sun. It is one of 3 known exoplanets orbiting this star.

Gliese 581
	Gliese 581 e	0.03 AU	1.8 M⊕	3.1 days
	Gliese 581 b	0.04 AU	15.3 M⊕	5.4 days
	Gliese 581 c	0.07 AU	5 M⊕	12.9 days
	Gliese 581 g disproven	0.13 AU	2.2 M⊕	-
	Gliese 581 d disproven	0.22 AU	7 M⊕	-
	Gliese 581 f disproven	50 AU		-

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