Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 131 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 292.2190° · Dec 44.6192°
View on SIMBAD →
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- Kepler-42
- Discovered
- 2011
- Discovered by
- Kepler
- Orbital period
- 1.21 days
- Radius
- 0.78 × Earth
- Mass
- 0.71 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 519 K
- Distance
- 40.06 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- Q2299623
- Diameter
- 12300
- Radius
- 0.07
- Mass
- 0.009
- Orbital period
- 1.2137672
- Image
- Artist's conception of Kepler-42.jpg
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- catalog code
- Kepler-42b
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- discovery method
- transit method
- right ascension
- 292.21903666299744
- declination
- 44.61916396563834
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-03-00
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.01153
- angular distance
- 0.0003
- temperature
- 519.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 93.126
- declination component of proper motion
- -417.420
- parallax
- 24.9340
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.04
- Commons category
- Kepler-42 b
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Encyclopedic overview
REDIRECT Kepler-42#Planetary system
Category:Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope Category:Exoplanets discovered in 2012 Category:Transiting exoplanets Category:Sub-Earth exoplanets
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-42 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.