The Kepler-872 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 2869.14 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 1.05 solar masses |
Radius | 1.08 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5902 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | 0.04 decimal exponent |
Age | 4.17 billion years |
With a mass below 5 Earth masses, a density of 3.22, and a semi-major axis of 0.0362 astronomical units, Kepler-872 b could, potentially, be an ocean world - a planet with no dry land.
Mass | 4.620 Earth masses |
Density | 3.220 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 1.990 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.0362 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 2.579 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 |