K2-85 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting K2-85.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 1.4 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 3.2 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,082 °C (1,979 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 800 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 16 hours.
Planet
- Radius
- 1.4 × Earth
- Mass
- 3.2 × Earth
- Density
- 5.9 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,355 K
- Starlight received
- 800 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 0.6845 days
- Average distance from its star
- Unknown
Star
- Host star
- K2-85
- Spectral class
- K — orange dwarf
- Surface temperature
- 4,232 K
- Radius
- 0.71 × Sun
- Mass
- 0.7 × Sun
- Age
- Unknown
System
- Distance from Earth
- 317.1 light-years (97.22 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2016
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- K2
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.