Kepler-37 b
Sign in to saveKepler-37b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-37 in the constellation Lyra. , it is the smallest planet discovered around a main-sequence star, with a radius slightly greater than that of the Moon and slightly smaller than that of Mercury. The measurements do not constrain its mass, but masses above a few times that of the Moon give unphysically high densities.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 209 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 284.0596° · Dec 44.5182°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-37b
- Planet.image
- Kepler-37b.jpg
- Planet.caption
- Artist's impression of Kepler-37b.
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler space telescope
- Planet.discovered
- February 20, 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.098
- Planet.star
- Kepler-37
- Planet.single_temperature
- (, equilibrium)
via Wikipedia infobox
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- Kepler-37
- Discovered
- 2013
- Discovered by
- Kepler
- Orbital period
- 13.37 days
- Radius
- 0.31 × Earth
- Mass
- 0.79 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 718 K
- Distance
- 63.92 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
~3 min read
Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Mass, radius and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Discovery
- See also
- Notes
- References
Kepler-37b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-37 in the constellation Lyra. , it is the smallest planet discovered around a main-sequence star, with a radius slightly greater than that of the Moon and slightly smaller than that of Mercury. The measurements do not constrain its mass, but masses above a few times that of the Moon give unphysically high densities.
==Characteristics== thumb|left|210px|A size comparison of the planets in the Kepler-37 system and objects in the Solar System
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-37 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.