The Kepler-973 system contains 1 exoplanet. It is located 1071.49 light years away from the solar system.
Mass | 0.86 solar masses |
Radius | 0.78 solar radiae |
Temperature | 5213 kelvin |
Stellar Metallicity | -0.06 decimal exponent |
Age | 2.29 billion years |
With a mass below 5 Earth masses, a density of 3.28, and a semi-major axis of 0.2508 astronomical units, Kepler-973 b could, potentially, be an ocean world - a planet with no dry land.
Mass | 4.500 Earth masses |
Density | 3.280 grams per cubic centimeter |
Radius | 1.960 Earth radiae |
Semi-major Axis | 0.2508 AU |
Eccentricity | 0 |
Orbital Period | 49.608 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 |