CoRoT-7 c
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting CoRoT-7.
Compared with Earth
- Mass
- About 8.4 times Earth's mass.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 3.7 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- Unknown
- Mass
- 8.4 × Earth
- Density
- Unknown
- Equilibrium temperature
- Unknown
- Starlight received
- Unknown
- Orbital period
- 3.698 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.046 AU
Star
- Host star
- CoRoT-7
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 5,256 K
- Radius
- 0.8643 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.899 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 521.5 light-years (159.9 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 3
Discovery
- Year
- 2009
- Method
- Radial Velocity
- Facility
- CoRoT
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.