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Habitability
0/ 100
Uninhabitable
HIP 68468 Ab rendered in TerraForge from its measured mass, orbit and star

HIP 68468 Ab

Lava World286 light years awayFound 2016
Mass
2.89 × Earth
Radius
1.51 × Earth
Gravity
1.27 g
Surface (est.)
1,791 K
Year
44.2 hrs
From Earth
286 ly
Mass
2.89 × Earth
Radius
1.51 × Earth
Gravity
1.27 g
Surface (est.)
1,791 K
Year
44.2 hrs
From Earth
286 ly

HIP 68468 A system

Type
G-type (Yellow (Sun-like))
Spectral type
G1V
Temperature
5,857 K
Radius
1.2 ☉
Mass
1.05 ☉
Planets
2
Luminosity
1.52 ☉

Published by the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. This world’s temperature and habitability score are computed from its star’s published radius and temperature.

Habitable zone

Star and planets drawn to scale: the star is 87 times as wide as HIP 68468 Ab, so only its edge is in view. Orbits spaced as in the star system view.

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Estimated: this planet doesn't transit its star, so its size is inferred, not measured

HIP 68468 Ab, from the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia (found 2016). Measured: 2.89 Earth masses, 0.0297 AU, a 5857 K G-type star. Composition inferred from a estimated bulk density of 0.84x Earth's, modeled rather than measured since this isn't a transiting planet, a little low for bare rock but leaving room for too little gas to change what it is — read as rock and iron, with a day locked to its 1.8-day year, as anything orbiting this close would be.

Surface. Molten surface with lava flows, volcanic activity everywhere

Lava World
Magnetic FieldExtreme Activity
HIP 68468 Ab's proximity to its star (0.03 AU) results in extreme surface temperatures of 1791K.
Lava worlds orbit so close to their stars that rocky surfaces melt into oceans of molten rock. Recent planet formation can also create temporary lava worlds.
Classification Criteria:
✓ Temperature: 1791K (>1000K)

Reading HIP 68468 Ab’s atmosphere

Dominant elements: O, Si, Fe, N, C, HThis is what a telescope would measure while HIP 68468 Ab crosses in front of its star: starlight passes through the atmosphere and spreads into a rainbow band. Each dark line marks a wavelength the atmosphere absorbed.Every element absorbs its own signature wavelengths — hydrogen always darkens the same two spots, calcium another pair, and so on. Astronomers match the lines in a real spectrum against a library of these signatures to say what an atmosphere is made of, light-years away, without ever visiting. A deeper line generally means more of that element is present.HIP 68468 Ab sits about 286 light-years away, found by the radial velocity method. Most catalogued distances trace back to parallax: as Earth orbits the Sun, a nearby star appears to shift very slightly against the distant background stars, and the size of that shift gives its distance directly.
Habitability ScoreUninhabitable
0
Contributing Factors
temperature0
Inferno world - temperatures exceed all possibility of life
atmosphere10

Minimal - too hot to retain

No atmosphere - exposed to radiation and temperature extremes
water8
Limited water content - boiling away, little would be retained
magnetic Field100
Magnetic field provides radiation protection
geology40
Extreme volcanic activity may be hazardous
Organic Chemistry80
Core organic elements (CHNO) present
rotation65
Slow rotation - significant day/night temperature variations, but life can adapt

Physical Properties

Mass
2.89x Earth (1.73e+25 kg)
Radius
1.42x Earth (9,075 km)
This planet: 1.42× Earth radiusEarth: 1× (baseline)
Surface Gravity
1.42x Earth (14.0 m/s²)
Surface Temperature
1,791 K (1,518 °C / 2,764 °F)
Rotation Period
44.2 hours/day (slower than Earth)
This planet: 44 h/dayEarth: 24 h/day

Time Dilation

Clocks run 15.7 seconds per year slower than deep space — about 21 minutes over a lifetime

Elemental Composition

A dark ringed planet hanging over the horizon of a rocky moon, its rings lit by a distant sun

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