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Transit · 2014

Kepler-282 c

This world receives 116× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 13.6 days; the light you see left it 4.36 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
13.6 days0.106 AU
Temperature
444 °C717 K

About this world

Kepler-282 c is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-282, a yellow, Sun-like star 4.36 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 13.6 days at 0.11 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 717 K (444 °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-282 has 4 known planets; the others are Kepler-282 b, Kepler-282 d and Kepler-282 e.

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