Exoplanet Ross 508 b

Exoplanet Ross 508 b orbits star Ross 508 that lies 37 light years away from the Sun. It weighs about 4 Earth masses and orbits its star much closer than Earth orbits Sun.

Ross 508 b

Exoplanet

Star: Ross 508

Distance from the star: 0.053 AU

Orbit around star: 10.77 days

Eccentricity: 0.35

Basic characteristic

Mass: 4 M Earth

Year of discovery: 2022 (radial velocity)

Other designations of this exoplanet
LHS 396 b, G 137-2 b, G 136-103 b, GJ 585 b, Gliese 585 b, JP11 5158 b, LFT 1203 b, LTT 14584 b, 2MASS J15235112+1727569 b, NLTT 40124 b, TIC 400019820 b, WISEA J152350.85+172744.4 b

Ross 508 system structure

Exoplanet Ross 508 b orbits star Ross 508, which has much lower mass than Sun. It is the only known exoplanet orbiting this star


	Ross 508
		Ross 508 b	0.05 AU	4 M⊕		10.8 days

Comparison

When comparing to the Solar system planets, Ross 508 b has 27 % of mass of Uranus and it orbits its star closer than Mercury orbits the Sun.

		Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune
	Mass	72.2	4.87	3.97	36.1	0.01	0.04	0.27	0.23
	Distance	0.14	0.07	0.05	0.03	0.01	0.01	0	0

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