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Gliese 581c / ˈ ɡ l iː z ə / (Gl 581c or GJ 581c) is an exoplanet orbiting within the Gliese 581 system. It is the second planet discovered in the system and the third in order from the star . With a mass about 6.8 times that of the Earth , it is classified as a super-Earth (a category of planets with masses greater than Earth's up to ten ...
Gliese 581c is the third planet orbiting Gliese 581. It was discovered in April 2007. [ 18 ] In their 2007 paper, Udry et al. asserted that if Gliese 581c has an Earth-type composition, it would have a radius of 1.5R 🜨 , which would have made it at the time "the most Earth-like of all known exoplanets". [ 18 ]
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The discovery of the extrasolar planet Gliese 581 c by the team of Stéphane Udry at University of Geneva's Observatory in Switzerland was announced on April 24, 2007. [12] The team used the telescope's HARPS spectrograph, and employed the radial velocity technique to identify the planet's influence on the star. [12] [13]
With Gliese 581c having a mass of at least 5 Earth masses and a distance from Gliese 581 of 0.073 astronomical units (6.8 million mi, 11 million km), it is on the "warm" edge of the habitable zone around Gliese 581 with an estimated mean temperature (without considering effects from an atmosphere) of −3 degrees Celsius with an albedo ...
Gliese 581g / ˈ ɡ l iː z ə / was a candidate exoplanet postulated to orbit within the Gliese 581 system, twenty light-years from Earth. [9] It was discovered by the Lick–Carnegie Exoplanet Survey, and was the sixth planet claimed to orbit the star; [10] however, its existence could not be confirmed by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) / High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher ...
The High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher instrument installed on the older ESO 3.6 m telescope led to the discovery of extrasolar planets, including Gliese 581c—one of the smallest planets seen outside the Solar System.
Gliese 581d / ˈ ɡ l iː z ə / (often shortened to Gl 581d or GJ 581d) is a doubtful, and frequently disputed, exoplanet candidate orbiting within the Gliese 581 system, approximately 20.4 light-years away in the Libra constellation. It was the third planet claimed in the system and the fourth (in a 4-planet model) or fifth (in a disproven 5 ...