Kepler-90 h
Sign in to saveKepler-90h (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-351.01) is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the early G-type main sequence star Kepler-90, the outermost of eight such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 2,840 light-years (870 parsecs), from Earth in the constellation Draco. 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.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 2,789 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 284.4335° · Dec 49.3051°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.mass
- 0.639
- Planet.name
- Kepler-90h
- Planet.image
- Kepler-90_h_and_hypothetical_exomoon.jpg
- Planet.caption
- Artist impression of Kepler-90 h and its hypothetical exomoon.
- Planet.discoverer
- Kepler spacecraft
- Planet.discovered
- November 12, 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0.0 ≤ 0.001
- Planet.period
- 331.60 ± 0.00037 d
- Planet.inclination
- 89.6 ± 1.3
- Planet.star
- Kepler-90
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.0038 ± 0.0273
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Physical characteristics
- Orbit
- Habitability
- Host star
- Discovery
- See also
- References
Kepler-90h (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-351.01) is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the early G-type main sequence star Kepler-90, the outermost of eight such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 2,840 light-years (870 parsecs), from Earth in the constellation Draco. 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.
==Characteristics== ===Physical characteristics=== Kepler-90h is a gas giant with no solid surface. Its equilibrium temperature is . It is around 0.64 times as massive and around 1.01 times as large as Jupiter. This makes it very similar to Jupiter, in terms of mass and radius.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-90 h” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.