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GJ 229 b

GJ 229 b is a frozen water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 18.8 ly away. Its star system has 3 stars. A year there lasts 579.5 days. It was found using the radial velocity method: it makes its star wobble. Planets this size may be wrapped in thick gas; the game imagines it as a solid or water world you can walk on. Note: its size is estimated from its mass, only a minimum mass is known.

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EarthGJ 229 b
Gravity9.3 m/s²0.95× Earth estimated
Size3.97× Earthradius estimated
Mass14.94× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ −161 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance18.8 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,564 Ka red dwarf, in a system of 3 stars
One year579.5 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2014radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of GJ 229 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a frozen shell of ice.

Pack the right suit. Choose 3 of 6 modules (cooling, heating, pressure hull, extra oxygen, radiation shield, jetpack), complete 3 surveys and get back to the lander before your oxygen runs out.

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Sizes, masses, temperatures and orbits come from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (Planetary Systems Composite table). Values marked estimated are calculated from the other measurements; the surface and air are imagined for the game.