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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Semi-major axis (AU)''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Semi-major axis (AU)'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Eccentricity''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Eccentricity'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Surface temperature (estimate)''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''habitable?'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Main source''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Main source'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Star''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Star'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Distance from Sol (ly)''' | align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Distance from Sol (ly)'''
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| ]||]||6,8||0,021||0,21||157-377°C<ref>Rivera, E. et al. (2005). "A ~7.5 M⊕ Planet Orbiting the Nearby Star, GJ 876". The Astrophysical Journal 634 (1): 625–640</ref>||<ref>Eugenio J. Rivera, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Nader Haghighipour, Stefano Meschiari (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Uranus-mass Fourth Planet for GJ 876 in an Extrasolar Laplace Configuration\".</ref>||]||15 | ]||]||6,8||0,021||0,21||Surface temperature estimate: 157-377°C<ref>Rivera, E. et al. (2005). "A ~7.5 M⊕ Planet Orbiting the Nearby Star, GJ 876". The Astrophysical Journal 634 (1): 625–640</ref>||<ref>Eugenio J. Rivera, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Nader Haghighipour, Stefano Meschiari (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Uranus-mass Fourth Planet for GJ 876 in an Extrasolar Laplace Configuration\".</ref>||]||15
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| ]||]||1,7||0,029||0||It is unlikely to possess an atmosphere due to its high temperature||<ref>Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581</ref>||]||20 | ]||]||1,7||0,029||0||It is unlikely to possess an atmosphere due to its high temperature||<ref>Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581</ref>||]||20

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This list of nearest terrestrial exoplanets contains known terrestrial exoplanets at a distance of up to 50 light-years from the Solar System, ordered by increasing distance.

Name Image (artist concept) M⊕ Semi-major axis (AU) Eccentricity habitable? Main source Star Distance from Sol (ly)
Gliese 876 d
6,8 0,021 0,21 Surface temperature estimate: 157-377°C Gliese 876 15
Gliese 581 e
1,7 0,029 0 It is unlikely to possess an atmosphere due to its high temperature Gliese 581 20
Gliese 581 c
5,6 0,072 0 likely to lie outside the habitable zone Gliese 581 20
Gliese 581 d
5,6 0,218 0 Gliese 581 20
61 Virginis b
5,1 0,050 0,12 61 Virginis 28
55 Cancri e
8,6 0,016 0,17 55 Cancri 40
HD 40307 b 4,2 0,047 0 HD 40307 42
HD 40307 c 6,8 0,081 0 HD 40307 42
HD 40307 d
File:Planets of HD 40307.jpg
 9,2 0,134 0 HD 40307 42

See also

References

  1. Rivera, E. et al. (2005). "A ~7.5 M⊕ Planet Orbiting the Nearby Star, GJ 876". The Astrophysical Journal 634 (1): 625–640
  2. Eugenio J. Rivera, Gregory Laughlin, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Nader Haghighipour, Stefano Meschiari (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A Uranus-mass Fourth Planet for GJ 876 in an Extrasolar Laplace Configuration\".
  3. Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581
  4. von Bloh et al. (2007). "The Habitability of Super-Earths in Gliese 581". Astronomy and Astrophysics 476 (3): 1365–1371.
  5. Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M_Earth Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581\".
  6. Vogt, S. S.; et al. (2010). \"The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1 M⊕ Planet in the Habitable Zone of the Nearby M3V Star Gliese 581
  7. Vogt, Steven (2009). \"A Super-Earth and two Neptunes Orbiting the Nearby Sun-like star 61 Virginis
  8. Rebekah et al.; Fabrycky (2010-05-21). \"Radial velocity planets de-aliased. A new, short period for Super-Earth 55 Cnc e\". The Astrophysical Journal 722: 937–953
  9. M. Mayor, S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, C. Mordasini, D. Segransan (2009). \"The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)\". Astronomy and Astrophysics 493 (2): 639–644
  10. M. Mayor, S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, C. Mordasini, D. Segransan (2009). \"The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)\". Astronomy and Astrophysics 493 (2): 639–644
  11. M. Mayor, S. Udry, C. Lovis, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, W. Benz, J.-L. Bertaux, F. Bouchy, C. Mordasini, D. Segransan (2009). \"The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XIII. A planetary system with 3 Super-Earths (4.2, 6.9, & 9.2 Earth masses)\". Astronomy and Astrophysics 493 (2): 639–644.