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Kepler-243 b

Kepler-243 b is a hot large super-Earth orbiting an orange star 2,263 ly away. A year there lasts 5.7 days. It was found using the transit method: it dims its star as it passes in front. 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 mass is estimated from its size.

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EarthKepler-243 b
Gravity10.74 m/s²1.09× Earth estimated
Size2.45× Earthradius measured
Mass6.57× Earthestimated
Temperature≈ 577 °Cequilibrium temperature measured
Distance2,263 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star5,228 Ka Sun-like star
One year5.7 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2014transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of Kepler-243 b. The game builds it from the real numbers above: you land on bare, cratered rock with no air.

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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Other planets around Kepler-243

Kepler-243 c1.17× Earth

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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.