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Transit · 2016

Kepler-1612 b

This world receives 269× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 3.92 days; the light you see left it 2.49 thousand years ago.

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Size
1 × Earth 
A year
3.92 days0.0482 AU
Temperature
757 °C1,030 K

About this world

Kepler-1612 b is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-1612, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.49 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 3.92 days at 0.048 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,030 K (757 °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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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