Kepler-87c
Sign in to saveKepler-87c is a planet orbiting Kepler-87, a star slightly more massive than the Sun and nearing the end of its main-sequence period.
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It sits within the topics Cygnus (constellation), Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope and Exoplanets discovered in 2013.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 4,180 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 297.9169° · Dec 46.9651°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Radius
- 0.548
- Mass
- 0.02
- Orbital period
- 191.2318
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- catalog code
- Kepler-87c
- time of discovery or invention
- 2014-01-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 297.91687124681130
- declination
- 46.96511861730222
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 89.588
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.039
- discovery method
- transit method
- temperature
- 403.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.433
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.933
- parallax
- 0.7825
- argument of periapsis
- 223.2
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.676
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
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Kepler-87c is a planet orbiting Kepler-87, a star slightly more massive than the Sun and nearing the end of its main-sequence period.
==Characteristics== Despite being larger than Neptune, Kepler-87c is only about 6.4 times more massive than Earth. This means that its density is only 0.152 g/cm3. This makes it the first Super-puff, a planet with such low density. Its equilibrium temperature is 130 °C.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-87c” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.