55 Cancri e
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System: 55 Cancri, first planet
Type: Gas core
Orbit time: 2.81 days
Orbit distance: 5.6 million km
Eccentricity: 0.17
Temperature: 1200 K
The planet might have been much larger in the past, but the radiation from the star has stripped hydrogen and helium from the atmosphere, leaving only the core behind. Its possible that the crust is very thin on this planet and that it would be constantly resurfaced by volcanoes.
