Kepler-62b
Sign in to saveKepler-62b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.02) is the innermost and the second smallest discovered exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-62, with a diameter roughly 30% larger than Earth. It was found using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. It is likely to have an equilibrium temperature slightly higher than the surface temperature of Venus (around ), high enough to melt some types of metal. Its stellar flux is 70 ± 9 times Earth's.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 982 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 283.2127° · Dec 45.3498°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.semimajor
- 0.0553 ± 0.0005 AU
- Planet.name
- Kepler-62b
- Planet.discoverer
- Borucki et al.
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler Space Observatory
- Planet.discovered
- 18 April 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit (Kepler Mission)
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- ~0
- Planet.period
- 5.714932 ± 0.000009 d
- Planet.inclination
- 89.2 ± 0.4
- Planet.star
- Kepler-62 (KOI-701)
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.31 ± 0.04
- Planet.single_temperature
- Teq:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- exoplanet
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Parent body
- Kepler-62
- Diameter
- 18800
- Radius
- 0.117
- Mass
- 9
- Orbital period
- 5.714890717
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2013-04-18
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- catalog code
- Kepler-62b
- right ascension
- 283.21271624868880
- declination
- 45.34983335429362
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -25.153
- temperature
- 750.0
- declination component of proper motion
- -31.170
- parallax
- 3.2947
- orbital inclination
- 89.2
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.05546547411
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
- M sin i
- 0.028
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Physical characteristics
- Mass, radius and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Discovery
- References
Kepler-62b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.02) is the innermost and the second smallest discovered exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-62, with a diameter roughly 30% larger than Earth. It was found using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. It is likely to have an equilibrium temperature slightly higher than the surface temperature of Venus (around ), high enough to melt some types of metal. Its stellar flux is 70 ± 9 times Earth's.
==Physical characteristics== ===Mass, radius and temperature=== Kepler-62b is a super-Earth, an exoplanet with a radius and mass bigger than Earth but smaller than that of the ice giants Neptune and Uranus. It has an equilibrium temperature of . This is hot enough to melt some types of metal. It has a radius of 1.3 , placing it below the estimated radius of ≤1.6 where it would otherwise be a mini-Neptune with a volatile composition, with no solid surface. However, the mass is currently not known, estimates place an upper limit of
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