Kepler-296 Ac
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Kepler-296c is a confirmed exoplanet located in the binary star system Kepler-296. It was discovered in 2014 by the Kepler space telescope using the transit method. During a study by members of the NASA Ames Research Center on two other planets in the Kepler-296 system, Kepler-296f and Kepler-296e, they confirmed that Kepler-296c was an exoplanet with "more than 99% confidence".
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It is catalogued under topics including Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope, Exoplanets discovered in 2014 and Kepler-296.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 716 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 286.5400° · Dec 49.4373°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Draco
- Parent body
- Kepler-296
- Diameter
- 22000
- Radius
- 0.178
- Orbital period
- 5.8416366
- Image
- Kepler296scale.png
Show 11 more facts
- discovery method
- transit method
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 2014-03-00
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0521
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.33
- declination component of proper motion
- -5.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -11.4
- right ascension
- 286.5400278
- declination
- 49.4372614
- catalog code
- TIC 243271945c
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Kepler-296c is a confirmed exoplanet located in the binary star system Kepler-296. It was discovered in 2014 by the Kepler space telescope using the transit method. During a study by members of the NASA Ames Research Center on two other planets in the Kepler-296 system, Kepler-296f and Kepler-296e, they confirmed that Kepler-296c was an exoplanet with "more than 99% confidence".
==References==
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