Proxima Centauri d

Exoplanet

Star: Proxima Centauri

Distance from the star: 0.02885 AU

Orbit around star: 5.167 days

Eccentricity: 0.04

Basic characteristic

Mass: 0.3 M Earth

Year of discovery: 2022 (radial velocity)

Other designations of this exoplanet
Alpha Centauri C d, CCDM J14396-6050C d, GCTP 3278.00 d, Gliese 551 d, HIP 70890 d, LFT 1110 d, LHS 49 d, LPM 526 d, LTT 5721 d, NLTT 37460 d, V645 Centauri d

Comparison

When comparing to the Solar system planets, Proxima Centauri d has 32 % of mass of Venus and it orbits its star closer than Mercury orbits the Sun.

		Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune
	Mass	4.75	0.32	0.26	2.37	0	0	0.02	0.02
	Distance	0.07	0.04	0.03	0.02	0.01	0	0	0

Proxima Centauri system structure

Exoplanet Proxima Centauri d orbits star Proxima Centauri, which has much lower mass than Sun. It is one of 3 known exoplanets orbiting this star.

Proxima Centauri		8700 AU
	Proxima Centauri d unconfirmed	0.03 AU	0.3 M⊕		5.2 days
	Proxima Centauri b	0.05 AU	1.2 M⊕	1.1 R⊕	11.2 days
	Proxima Centauri c	1.48 AU	7.8 M⊕		1928 days

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