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HD 180617 b

HD 180617 b is a cold water-rich world orbiting a red dwarf star 19.3 ly away. Its star system has 2 stars. A year there lasts 105.9 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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EarthHD 180617 b
Gravity9.61 m/s²0.98× Earth estimated
Size3.53× Earthradius estimated
Mass12.21× Earthmeasured
Temperature≈ −71 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance19.3 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star3,534 Ka red dwarf, in a system of 2 stars
One year105.9 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2018radial velocity

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of HD 180617 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on a deep ocean under a hydrogen sky.

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.