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Transit · 2014 · habitable zone

Kepler-283 c

This world receives 1.05× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 92.7 days; the light you see left it 1.53 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.8 × Earth 
A year
92.7 days0.341 AU
Temperature
−33 °C240 K

About this world

Kepler-283 c is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-283, an orange dwarf 1.53 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.8 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 92.7 days at 0.34 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 240 K (−33 °C), which places it in the conservative habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky 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-283 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-283 b.

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