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Gliese 163 c

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Discovery status
  
Announced

Gliese 163 c

Discovery date
  
September 2012 September 20, 2012 (announced)

Discoverer(s)
  
European HARPS team led by Xavier Bonfils

Discovery site
  
UJF-Grenoble/CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique of Grenoble, France.

Gliese 163 c (/ˈɡlzə/) or Gl 163 c is said to be a potentially habitable exoplanet, on the basis of its distance from its star being compatible with temperatures that would allow liquid water to exist on the surface, orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 163. The parent star is 15.0 parsecs (approximately 49 light-years, or 465 trillion kilometers) from the Sun, in the constellation Dorado. Gliese 163 c is one of three planets discovered in the system. With a mass at least 7.2 times that of the Earth, it is classified as a super-Earth (a planet of roughly 1 to 10 Earth masses).

References

Gliese 163 c Wikipedia