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Kepler-6 b
Sign in to saveKepler-6b is an extrasolar planet in the orbit of the unusually metal-rich Kepler-6, a star in the field of view of the NASA-operated Kepler spacecraft, which searches for planets that cross directly in front of, or transit, their host stars. It was the third planet to be discovered by Kepler. Kepler-6 orbits its host star every three days from a distance of .046 AU. Its proximity to Kepler-6 inflated the planet, about two-thirds the mass of Jupiter, to slightly larger than Jupiter's size and greatly heated its atmosphere.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 1,906 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 296.8372° · Dec 48.2399°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.discovered
- 2010-01-04
- Planet.name
- Kepler-6b
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison Kepler-6 b.png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of Kepler-6b with Jupiter.
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit (Kepler Mission)
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.semimajor
- 0.04567 ±0.00050 AU
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0
- Planet.period
- 3.234723 ± 0.000017 d
- Planet.inclination
- 86.8 ± 0.3
- Planet.star
- Kepler-6
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.323 ± 0.026
- Planet.mass
- 0.669 ± 0.027
- Planet.albedo
- 0.11±0.04
- Planet.single_temperature
- 1660 ± 100
via Wikipedia infobox
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- Kepler-6
- Discovered
- 2009
- Discovered by
- Kepler
- Orbital period
- 3.23 days
- Radius
- 14.62 × Earth
- Mass
- 212.31 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 1460 K
- Distance
- 587.04 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
Wikidata facts
- Radius
- 1.304
- Mass
- 0.668
- Orbital period
- 3.2346993
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison Kepler-6 b.png
Show 13 more facts
- catalog code
- Kepler-6b
- Commons category
- Kepler-6 b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2010-04-00
- right ascension
- 296.83724132288960
- declination
- 48.23993319636361
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.06
- albedo
- 0.07
- temperature
- 1460.0
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.04852
- orbital inclination
- 88.93
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.961
- declination component of proper motion
- 8.429
- parallax
- 1.6747
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- Discovery and naming
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- Characteristics
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Kepler-6b is an extrasolar planet in the orbit of the unusually metal-rich Kepler-6, a star in the field of view of the NASA-operated Kepler spacecraft, which searches for planets that cross directly in front of, or transit, their host stars. It was the third planet to be discovered by Kepler. Kepler-6 orbits its host star every three days from a distance of .046 AU. Its proximity to Kepler-6 inflated the planet, about two-thirds the mass of Jupiter, to slightly larger than Jupiter's size and greatly heated its atmosphere.
Follow-up observations led to the planet's confirmation, which was announced at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 4, 2010 along with four other Kepler-discovered planets.