Kepler-23 c
Sign in to savethumb | right | alt=Comparative sizes of Earth, Kepler-23 c and Jupiter. | Comparative sizes of Earth, Kepler-23 c and Jupiter. Kepler-23c is a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-23, located in the constellation Cygnus. The planet is 3.12 times wider than the Earth and is 0.189 Jupiter masses. The planet was discovered using data taken from the Kepler space telescope. It is likely a gas giant. The planets Kepler-23b and d both reside in the same planetary system.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 2,862 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 294.2189° · Dec 49.4792°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- Kepler-23
- Diameter
- 44100
- Radius
- 3.005
- Mass
- 7.81
- Orbital period
- 10.74
- Image
- Kepler-23 c.jpg
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- catalog code
- Kepler-23c
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-05-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 294.21889814006204
- declination
- 49.47923697243722
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.099
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.021
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 2.262
- declination component of proper motion
- 3.851
- parallax
- 1.1678
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thumb | right | alt=Comparative sizes of Earth, Kepler-23 c and Jupiter. | Comparative sizes of Earth, Kepler-23 c and Jupiter. Kepler-23c is a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-23, located in the constellation Cygnus. The planet is 3.12 times wider than the Earth and is 0.189 Jupiter masses. The planet was discovered using data taken from the Kepler space telescope. It is likely a gas giant. The planets Kepler-23b and d both reside in the same planetary system.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-23 c” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.