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Kepler-15
Sign in to savethumb|alt=Comparative sizes of Sun and Kepler-15|Comparative sizes of Sun and Kepler-15 Kepler-15 (also known as KOI-128 or KIC 11359879 is a G-type subgiant with a mass of 1.018 solar masses and a radius of 1.253 solar radius.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Spectral type
- G8IV-V
- Distance
- 2,474 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00006585672306624879
- Coordinates
- RA 296.2006° · Dec 49.1401°
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 755.38
- Diameter
- 1850000
- Radius
- 0.99
- Mass
- 1.02
- Image
- Kepler-15.jpg
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- catalog code
- KIC 11359879
- Commons category
- Kepler-15
- effective temperature
- 5515
- parallax
- 1.3181
- apparent magnitude
- 13.701518
- radial velocity
- -19.4
- spectral class
- F9
- metallicity
- 0.187
- stellar rotational velocity
- 2.9
- surface gravity
- 21000
- luminosity
- 1.4136236
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.755
- declination component of proper motion
- -12.129
- right ascension
- 296.20056876078
- declination
- 49.14008264973
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3.7
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thumb|alt=Comparative sizes of Sun and Kepler-15|Comparative sizes of Sun and Kepler-15 Kepler-15 (also known as KOI-128 or KIC 11359879 is a G-type subgiant with a mass of 1.018 solar masses and a radius of 1.253 solar radius.
==Planetary system== Kepler-15 is orbited by one known planet named Kepler-15b, a hot jupiter enriched in heavy elements. It was discovered by the transit method in 2011.
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