Q18730264
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- Planet.name
- Kepler-296f
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler Space Observatory
- Planet.discovered
- 2014
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.period
- 63.33587900 d
- Planet.inclination
- 89.950
- Planet.star
- Kepler-296
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.790
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- Confirmed exoplanet
- Habitability
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Kepler-296f (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-1422.04) is a confirmed super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of Kepler-296. The planet was discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured. NASA announced the discovery of the exoplanet on 26 February 2014.
==Confirmed exoplanet== Kepler 296f is a super-Earth with a radius 1.79 times that of Earth. The planet orbits Kepler-296 once every 63.3 days.