Kepler-62d
Sign in to saveKepler-62d (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.01) is the third innermost and the largest exoplanet discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62, with a size roughly twice the diameter of Earth. It was found using the transit method, in which the dimming that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. Its stellar flux is 15 ± 2 times Earth's. Due to its closer orbit to its star, it is a super-Venus or, if it has a volatile composition, a hot Neptune, with an estimated equilibrium temperature of , too hot to sustain life on its surface.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 982 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 283.2127° · Dec 45.3498°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-62d
- 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.semimajor
- 0.120 ± 0.001 AU
- Planet.eccentricity
- ~0
- Planet.period
- 18.16406 ± 0.00002 d
- Planet.inclination
- 89.7 ± 0.3
- Planet.star
- Kepler-62 (KOI-701)
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.95 ± 0.07
- Planet.single_temperature
- Teq:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 14 more facts
- catalog code
- Kepler-62d
- time of discovery or invention
- 2013-04-18
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 283.21271624868880
- declination
- 45.34983335429362
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- temperature
- 510.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -25.153
- declination component of proper motion
- -31.170
- parallax
- 3.2947
- orbital inclination
- 89.7
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.1199019816
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Physical characteristics
- Mass, radius and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Discovery
- References
Kepler-62d (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.01) is the third innermost and the largest exoplanet discovered orbiting the star Kepler-62, with a size roughly twice the diameter of Earth. It was found using the transit method, in which the dimming that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. Its stellar flux is 15 ± 2 times Earth's. Due to its closer orbit to its star, it is a super-Venus or, if it has a volatile composition, a hot Neptune, with an estimated equilibrium temperature of , too hot to sustain life on its surface.
==Physical characteristics==
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