Kepler-61
Sign in to saveKepler-61 is a K-type main-sequence star approximately 1,100 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It is located within the field of vision of the Kepler spacecraft, the satellite that NASA's Kepler Mission used to detect planets that may be transiting their stars. On April 24, 2013 it was announced that the star has an extrasolar planet (a super-Earth) orbiting in the inner edge of the habitable zone, named Kepler-61b.
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- Distance from Earth
- 338.24
- Diameter
- 877000
- Radius
- 0.62
- Mass
- 0.64
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- catalog code
- Kepler-61A
- effective temperature
- 4017
- parallax
- 2.9296
- apparent magnitude
- 15.037025
- surface gravity
- 40380
- spectral class
- K7V
- metallicity
- 0.108
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.066
- declination component of proper motion
- 10.687
- right ascension
- 295.30450631421
- declination
- 42.47527332554
- radial velocity
- -51.005199
- stellar rotational velocity
- 3.823
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3.63
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Kepler-61 is a K-type main-sequence star approximately 1,100 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It is located within the field of vision of the Kepler spacecraft, the satellite that NASA's Kepler Mission used to detect planets that may be transiting their stars. On April 24, 2013 it was announced that the star has an extrasolar planet (a super-Earth) orbiting in the inner edge of the habitable zone, named Kepler-61b.
==Nomenclature and history== thumb|left|300px|The Kepler (spacecraft)|Kepler Space Telescope search volume, in the context of the [[Milky Way Galaxy.]] Prior to Kepler observation, Kepler-61 had the 2MASS catalogue number 2MASS J19411308+422831. In the Kepler Input Catalog it has the designation of KIC 6960913, and when it was found to have transiting planet candidates it was given the Kepler object of interest number of KOI-1361.
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