Kepler-20 f
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Kepler-20f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-070.05) is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-20, the second outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located approximately 929 light-years (285 parsecs, or about km) from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The exoplanet was found by using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. The planet is notable as it has the closest radius to Earth known so far.
Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-20f
- Planet.image
- Kepler-20f_Planet.jpg
- Planet.caption
- An artist's depiction of Kepler-20f.
- Planet.discoverer
- Kepler team
- Planet.discovered
- 20 December 2011
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit (Kepler Mission)
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.094
- Planet.period
- d
- Planet.star
- Kepler-20 (KOI-70)
- Planet.single_temperature
- (, )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- exoplanet
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Parent body
- Kepler-20
- Diameter
- 15800
- Radius
- 0.08404
- Mass
- 1.4
- Orbital period
- 19.57758478
- Image
- Kepler-20f Planet.jpg
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- catalog code
- Kepler-20f
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-02-00
- right ascension
- 287.69801450660000
- declination
- 42.33869426601861
- epoch
- J2000.0
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.13936
- orbital inclination
- 88.788
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.976
- declination component of proper motion
- -26.959
- parallax
- 3.5103
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
- Commons category
- Kepler-20 f
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Mass, radius and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Discovery
- References
Kepler-20f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-070.05) is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-20, the second outermost of five such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located approximately 929 light-years (285 parsecs, or about km) from Earth in the constellation Lyra. The exoplanet was found by using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. The planet is notable as it has the closest radius to Earth known so far.
==Characteristics== thumb|left|Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f compared to [[Venus and Earth]]
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-20 f” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.