The Kepler-568 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 426.11 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.55 solar masses |
Radius | 0.53 solar radiae |
Temperature | 3768 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0.11 decimal exponent |
Age | 5.89 billion years |
At more than 10 Earth masses, Kepler-568 b 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 | 5.730 Earth masses |
Density | 2.730 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 2.260 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.0794 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 11.023 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 |