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Transit · 2014

Kepler-100 c

This world receives 209× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 12.8 days; the light you see left it 994 years ago.

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Size
2.2 × Earth 
A year
12.8 days0.111 AU
Temperature
666 °C939 K

About this world

Kepler-100 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-100, a yellow, Sun-like star 994 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.2 times the size of Earth and holds 7 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 12.8 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 939 K (666 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", its star has probably stripped its atmosphere away, leaving bare rock.

It was discovered in 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-100 has 4 known planets; the others are Kepler-100 b, Kepler-100 d and Kepler-100 e.

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