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{{Short description|Goldilocks super-Earth orbiting Gliese 163}}
{{Infobox planet
| name                     = Gliese 163 c
<!-- DISCOVERY           -->
| discoverer               = European HARPS team led by Xavier Bonfils
| discovery_site           = UJF-Grenoble/CNRS-INSU, Institut de Planétologie et d’Astrophysique of Grenoble, France.
| discovered               = September 2012<br />September 20, 2012 <small>(announced)</small>
| discovery_method         = Radial velocity (HARPS)
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<!-- ORBITAL             --> 
| apsis                    = astron
| semimajor                = {{convert|0.12536|±|0.0001|AU|km|abbr=on}}
| period                   = 25.631 ± 0.0235 [[Day|d]]
| star                     = [[Astronomy:Gliese 163|Gliese 163]]
<!-- PHYS CHARS          --> 
| mean_radius              = 2.43 <ref name="PHL"/> {{Earth radius|link=y}}
| mass                     = 7.3<ref name="PHL">{{Cite web |url=http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data/database |title=PHL's Exoplanets Catalog - Planetary Habitability Laboratory @ UPR Arecibo |access-date=2014-01-09 |archive-date=2019-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190521010035/http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data/database |url-status=dead }}</ref> {{Earth mass|link=y}}
| single_temperature       = 277 K<ref>{{cite web |title=HEC: Data of Potential Habitable Worlds |url=http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data |date=November 12, 2012 |publisher=University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (Planetary Habitability Laboratory) |access-date=November 16, 2012 |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032102/http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog/data |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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<!-- NOTES               --> 
}}
'''Gliese 163 c''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɡ|l|iː|z|ə}}) or '''Gl 163 c''' is a potentially [[Astronomy:Habitable exoplanet|habitable exoplanet]],<ref name="PHL-20120829">{{cite web |last=Méndez |first=Abel |title=A Hot Potential Habitable Exoplanet around Gliese 163 |url=http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/ahotpotentialhabitableexoplanetaroundgliese163 |date=August 29, 2012 |publisher=University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo (Planetary Habitability Laboratory) |access-date=September 20, 2012 |archive-date=October 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021202448/http://phl.upr.edu/press-releases/ahotpotentialhabitableexoplanetaroundgliese163 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Space-20120920">{{cite web |last=Redd |first=Nola Taylor |title=Newfound Alien Planet a Top Contender to Host Life |url=http://www.space.com/17684-alien-planet-gliese-163c-extraterrestrial-life.html |date=September 20, 2012 |publisher=Space.com |access-date=September 20, 2012 }}</ref> orbiting within the [[Astronomy:Habitable zone|habitable zone]] of M dwarf star [[Astronomy:Gliese 163|Gliese 163]].<ref name="Simbad-20120920">{{cite web |author=Staff |title=LHS 188 -- High proper-motion Star |url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=HIP+19394 |date=September 20, 2012 |publisher=[[Organization:Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg|Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg]] (Strasbourg astronomical Data Center) |access-date=September 20, 2012 }}</ref> 

The parent star is 15.0 parsecs (approximately 49 light-years, or 465 trillion kilometers) from the Sun, in the constellation Dorado.  ''Gliese 163 c'' is one of five planets discovered in the system.  With a mass at least 7.2 times that of the [[Astronomy:Earth|Earth]],<ref name="PHL-20120829" /><ref name="Space-20120920" /> it is classified as a [[Astronomy:Super-Earth|super-Earth]] (a planet of roughly 1 to 10 Earth masses).<ref name="Space-20120920" /><ref name="exoplanet">{{Cite web|url=http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gl_163_c/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317132230/http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/gl_163_c/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 17, 2013|work=[[Astronomy:Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia|Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia]]|title=Planet Gl 163 c|access-date=2013-03-15}}</ref>

{{Planetary radius
| align = 
| base = Earth
| Exoplanet = Gliese 163 c
| radius = 243

==References==
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== External links ==
* [https://exoplanet.eu/home/ The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia]
* [http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog "The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog"](PHL/UPR Arecibo)

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{{Extraterrestrial life}}
{{2012 in space}}
{{Stars of Dorado}}

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gliese 163 c}}
[[Category:Exoplanets detected by radial velocity]]
[[Category:Gliese and GJ objects|0163]]
[[Category:Super-Earths in the habitable zone]]



{{Sourceattribution|Gliese 163 c}}