The Kepler-487 system is known to contain 2 exoplanets in orbit around it. It is located 2845.20 light years away from the solar system.
| Mass | 0.91 solar masses |
| Radius | 0.88 solar radiae |
| Temperature | 5444 kelvin |
| Stellar Metallicity | 0 Decimal exponent |
| Age | 5.62 billion years |
| Mass | NaN Earth masses |
| Density | NaN Grams per cubic centimeter |
| Radius | 11.420 Earth radiae |
| Semi-major Axis | 0.1157 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital Period | 15.359 days |
| Discovery Method | Transit |
| Discovery Facility | Kepler |
| Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
| Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
| Discovery Date | 2016-05 |
| Reference | Morton et al. 2016 |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-487 c 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 in our solar system.
| Mass | 7.650 Earth masses |
| Density | 2.180 Grams per cubic centimeter |
| Radius | 2.680 Earth radiae |
| Semi-major Axis | 0.2141 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| Orbital Period | 38.652 days |
| Discovery Method | Transit |
| Discovery Facility | Kepler |
| Discovery Telescope | 0.95 m Kepler Telescope |
| Discovery Instrument | Kepler CCD Array |
| Discovery Date | 2016-05 |
| Reference | Morton et al. 2016 |