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Transit · 2016

Kepler-167 d

This world receives 14.5× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 21.8 days; the light you see left it 1.12 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
21.8 days0.14 AU
Temperature
265 °C538 K

About this world

Kepler-167 d is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-167, an orange dwarf (type K4) 1.12 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 21.8 days at 0.14 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 538 K (265 °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. Kepler-167 has 4 known planets; the others are Kepler-167 b, Kepler-167 c and Kepler-167 e.

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