Kepler-62 d
Planet· orbits Kepler-62
Kepler-62 d — a super-Earth (1.95 R⊕) on an 18-day orbit, warm and probably rocky. Size measured; mass only an upper limit, so no density is quoted. Never imaged.
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Key facts
Radius
12,423 km
1.95× wider than Earth
Year
18.16 Earth days
Distance from Kepler-62
0.12 AU
Science
Physical
- Radius
- 12,423 km · 1.95× wider than Earth
Orbital
- Semi-major axis
- 0.12 AU
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (transit + orbit fit)
- Eccentricity
- 0
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (transit + orbit fit)
- Inclination
- 0.00 °
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (transit + orbit fit)
- Orbital period
- 18.2 days
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (transit + orbit fit)
- Perihelion
- 0.12 AU
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Aphelion
- 0.12 AU
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Mean orbital velocity
- 71.9 km/s
- Computed from the orbital elements
Composition
- Surface appearance
- Appearance based on NASA/JPL-Caltech's artist's concept. No spacecraft has imaged this world, so its real appearance is unknown — The surface shown is an artistic representation, shown only in Visual mode; Realism shows a plain spectral colour.
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 15.1 S⊕ · 15.1× the sunlight Earth receives
- Computed from Kepler-62's luminosity and the orbital distance (inverse-square; Earth's sunlight = 1).
Discovery & history
- Method
- Transit detection
- Name
- Designated 'd' under the IAU convention that letters a star's planets 'b', 'c', 'd'... in the order found (the star is the unwritten 'a'); no IAU proper name has been assigned.
One of five planets confirmed around Kepler-62 in 2013.
Images
No telescope has imaged this world — it is known only from the tiny dip it makes crossing its star. Only its host system has been pictured (see the system view); its true surface appearance is unknown.