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Kepler-61b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-1361.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within parts of the habitable zone of the K-type main-sequence star Kepler-61. It is located about 1,100 light-years (338 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered in 2013 using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured, by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-61b
- Planet.caption
- Artistic simulation of Kepler-61b depicted as a super-Earth orbiting around its parent star.
- Planet.discoverer
- Kepler spacecraft
- Planet.discovered
- 24 April 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.25
- Planet.period
- 59.87756 d
- Planet.inclination
- >89.80
- Planet.star
- Kepler-61 (KOI-1361)
- Planet.mean_radius
- 2.15 ± 0.13
- Planet.mass
- 6.65
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
9 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Mass, radius and temperature
- Host star
- Orbit
- Habitability
- Discovery
- See also
- References
- External links
Kepler-61b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-1361.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within parts of the habitable zone of the K-type main-sequence star Kepler-61. It is located about 1,100 light-years (338 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered in 2013 using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured, by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
==Characteristics==