The Kepler-32 system contains 5 exoplanets. It is located 1056.25 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.58 solar masses |
Radius | 0.53 solar radiae |
Temperature | 3900 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0 decimal exponent |
Age | 2.69 billion years |
At more than 50 Earth masses, Kepler-32 b is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 1303.000 Earth masses |
Density | NaN grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 2.200 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.05 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 5.901 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | Kepler |
Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
Discovery Date | 2012-05 |
Reference | Fabrycky et al. 2012 |
At more than 50 Earth masses, Kepler-32 c is a gas giant, a planet whose mass is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter and Saturn.
Mass | 158.900 Earth masses |
Density | NaN grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 2.000 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.09 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 8.752 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | Kepler |
Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
Discovery Date | 2012-05 |
Reference | Fabrycky et al. 2012 |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-32 d is an ice giant, a planet that is made up mostly of volatiles like water, amonia and methane, and enveloped by a dense hydrogen and helium atmosphere, much like Uranus and Neptune.
Mass | 7.750 Earth masses |
Density | 2.160 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 2.700 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.13 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 22.780 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | Kepler |
Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
Discovery Date | 2013-02 |
Reference | Swift et al. 2013 |
At 2.859 Earth masses, Kepler-32 e is a so called Super Earth. Super Earths could be terrestrial worlds like Earth, but they could also be ocean worlds or terrestrial worlds wrapped in a substantial atmosphere, in which case some refer to them as Mini Neptunes.
Mass | 2.860 Earth masses |
Density | 4.660 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 1.500 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.033 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 2.896 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | Kepler |
Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
Discovery Date | 2013-02 |
Reference | Swift et al. 2013 |
At less than 1.5 Earth masses, Kepler-32 f is a terrestrial planet, much like the terrestrial planets we find in our solar system, namely Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
Mass | 0.477 Earth masses |
Density | 4.750 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 0.820 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.013 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 0.743 days |
Discovery Method | Transit |
Discovery Facility | Kepler |
Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
Discovery Date | 2013-02 |
Reference | Swift et al. 2013 |