Kepler-68c
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Kepler-68c is an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star Kepler-68 in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by planetary-transit methods by the Kepler space telescope in February 2013. It has a mass of 4.8 times that of Earth (0.015 MJ) and a radius of 0.953 Earth radii. It has an orbital period of 9.605085 days at a distance of about 0.09059 AU from its star. Relatively wide constraints on Kepler-68c's mass are the result lack of detection of the planet through radial-velocity and transit-timing-variation methods.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 471 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 291.0324° · Dec 49.0403°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- Kepler-68
- Radius
- 0.0827
- Mass
- 0.00642
- Orbital period
- 9.6051
- Image
- Kepler-68 c.jpg
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- catalog code
- Kepler-68c
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2013-03-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 291.03235837937075
- declination
- 49.04025783364222
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 86.93
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.09059
- argument of periapsis
- 0.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.099
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -7.334
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.430
- parallax
- 6.9076
- M sin i
- 2.669529507
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Kepler-68c is an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star Kepler-68 in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by planetary-transit methods by the Kepler space telescope in February 2013. It has a mass of 4.8 times that of Earth (0.015 MJ) and a radius of 0.953 Earth radii. It has an orbital period of 9.605085 days at a distance of about 0.09059 AU from its star. Relatively wide constraints on Kepler-68c's mass are the result lack of detection of the planet through radial-velocity and transit-timing-variation methods.
==See also== List of planets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-68c” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.