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KIC 8540376 c

KIC 8540376 c is a frozen water-rich world orbiting a bright white-yellow star 3,497 ly away. A year there lasts 75.2 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, its temperature is unknown, so the game assumes one.

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EarthKIC 8540376 c
Gravity10.81 m/s²1.1× Earth estimated
Size2.4× Earthradius measured
Mass6.35× Earthestimated
Temperature?unknown: the game assumes about −153 °C
Distance3,497 light-yearsfrom the Sun
Its star6,474 Ka hot white-yellow star
One year75.2 daystime to orbit its star
Discovered2015transit

What it would be like in Worldwalk imagined

Nobody has seen the surface of KIC 8540376 c. 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.