Gliese 682 c

Gliese 682 c is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf Gliese 682. It is a super-Earth.

The planet has a mass of 4.4 ME and a radius of ~1.5 RE if rocky. Gliese 682 c was one of four discovered by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire was discovered March 4, 2014. The planet at discovery was the second-closest known planet in the so-called Goldilocks zone. ^[1]

It orbits Gliese 682 at 0.176AU, in a nearly circular orbit each 57.3 days.^[2]

References

1. Stars with Multiple Habitable Planets Might be Common (University of Porto Rico, 2014).
2. Mikko Tuomi, Hugh R. A. Jones, John R. Barnes, Guillem Anglada-Escudé, James S. Jenkins, Bayesian search for low-mass planets around nearby M dwarfs. Estimates for occurrence rate based on global detectability statistics (Submitted on 3 Mar 2014).