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Transit · 2014

Kepler-260 c

This world receives 6.78× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 76.1 days; the light you see left it 2.05 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.7 × Earth 
A year
76.1 days0.332 AU
Temperature
99 °C372 K

About this world

Kepler-260 c is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-260, a yellow, Sun-like star 2.05 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.7 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 76.1 days at 0.33 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 372 K (99 °C): too cold for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

It was discovered in 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-260 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-260 b.

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