Kepler-62 e
Planet· orbits Kepler-62
Kepler-62 e — a super-Earth (1.61 R⊕) orbiting in the HABITABLE ZONE every 122 days, one of the first such worlds found. It may be rocky or water-covered and temperate. Size measured; mass only an upper limit, so no density is quoted. Never imaged.
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Key facts
Radius
10,257 km
1.61× wider than Earth
Year
122 Earth days
Distance from Kepler-62
0.427 AU
Science
Physical
- Radius
- 10,257 km · 1.61× wider than Earth
Orbital
- Semi-major axis
- 0.427 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
- 122.4 days
- From the NASA Exoplanet Archive (transit + orbit fit)
- Perihelion
- 0.427 AU
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Aphelion
- 0.427 AU
- Computed from the orbital elements
- Mean orbital velocity
- 38 km/s
- Computed from the orbital elements
Composition
- Cloud appearance
- Appearance based on NASA/JPL-Caltech's artist's concept. No spacecraft has imaged this world, so its real appearance is unknown — The banded clouds shown are a representation of its class, shown only in Visual mode; Realism shows a plain spectral colour.
Radiation & temperature
- Insolation
- 1.19 S⊕ · 1.19× 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 'e' 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.
Confirmed in 2013 as one of two habitable-zone super-Earths around Kepler-62 — an early milestone for temperate worlds.
Images
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