Q18819063
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- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 993 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 285.3500° · Dec 41.4522°
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Key facts
- Planet.name
- Kepler-440b
- Planet.discovery_site
- Kepler Space Observatory
- Planet.discovered
- 2015
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- >0.340
- Planet.period
- 101.11141000 d
- Planet.inclination
- 89.930
- Planet.star
- Kepler-440
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.860
- Planet.single_temperature
- .
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Confirmed exoplanet
- Habitability
- See also
- References
- External links
Kepler-440b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-4087.01) is a confirmed super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of Kepler-440, about from Earth. 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 confirmation of the exoplanet on 6 January 2015.
== Confirmed exoplanet == Kepler-440b is a [super-Earth] with a radius 1.86 times that of Earth. The planet orbits Kepler-440 once every 101.1 days.
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