Kepler-62 c
Sign in to saveKepler-62c (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.05) is an approximately Mars-sized exoplanet discovered in orbit around the star Kepler-62, the second innermost of five discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft around Kepler-62. At the time of discovery it was the second-smallest exoplanet discovered and confirmed by the Kepler spacecraft, after Kepler-37b. It was found using the transit method, in which the dimming that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. Its stellar flux is 25 ± 3 times Earth's. It is similar to Mercury.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 982 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 283.2127° · Dec 45.3498°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-62c
- Planet.image
- Kepler-62c_exoplanet.png
- Planet.discoverer
- Borucki et al.
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler Space Observatory
- Planet.discovered
- 18 April 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit (Kepler Mission)
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.semimajor
- 0.0929 ± 0.0009 AU
- Planet.eccentricity
- ~0
- Planet.period
- 12.4417 ± 0.0001 d
- Planet.inclination
- 89.7 ± 0.2
- Planet.star
- Kepler-62 (KOI-701)
- Planet.mean_radius
- 0.54 ± 0.03
- Planet.single_temperature
- Teq:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
Show 15 more facts
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 283.21271624868880
- catalog code
- Kepler-62c
- time of discovery or invention
- 2013-04-18
- declination
- 45.34983335429362
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- temperature
- 578.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -25.153
- declination component of proper motion
- -31.170
- parallax
- 3.2947
- orbital inclination
- 89.7
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0929
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
- M sin i
- 0.0126
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Physical characteristics
- Mass, radius and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Discovery
- References
Kepler-62c (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-701.05) is an approximately Mars-sized exoplanet discovered in orbit around the star Kepler-62, the second innermost of five discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft around Kepler-62. At the time of discovery it was the second-smallest exoplanet discovered and confirmed by the Kepler spacecraft, after Kepler-37b. It was found using the transit method, in which the dimming that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. Its stellar flux is 25 ± 3 times Earth's. It is similar to Mercury.
==Physical characteristics==
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