K2-24c

{{Infobox planet

| name = K2-24c

| discoverer = PETIGURA E., HOWARD A., LOPEZ E., DECK K., FULTON B. et al.

| discovery_site = Kepler Space Observatory

| discovered = Nov. 17, 2015

| discovery_method = Transit

| apsis = astron

| semimajor = 0.247 (± 0.004) AU

| eccentricity = 0{{cite web

|url = http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/epic_2037_b/

|title = Planet EPIC 2037 b

|access-date = 2015-10-17

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151124135009/http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/epic_2037_b/

|work = Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia

|archive-date = 2015-11-24

}}

| period = 42.3633 (± 0.0006) d

| inclination = 89.76 (± 0.2)

| star = K2-24

| mean_radius = 7.82 ± 0.72 {{Earth radius|link=y}}

| mass = 27.0 ± 6.9{{cite journal |display-authors=1|last1=Petigura |first1=Erik A. |last2=Howard |first2=Andrew W. |last3=LOPEZ|first3=E. |last4=DECK|first4=K. |last5=FULTON|first5=B. |title=Two Transiting Low Density Sub-Saturns from K2|date=14 November 2015 |arxiv = 1511.04497|bibcode = 2016ApJ...818...36P |doi=10.3847/0004-637X/818/1/36 |volume=818 |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |issue=1 |pages=36|s2cid=23452646 |doi-access=free }} {{Earth mass|sym=y|link=y}}

| density = {{cvt|310|±|120|kg/m3|g/cm3|lk=on|disp=out}}

| single_temperature = {{convert|606.0|K|C}}

}}

K2-24c also known as EPIC 203771098 c is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star K2-24 every 42 days. It has a density far lower than that of Saturn, which indicates that the planet is clearly a gas giant.

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