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Transit · 2012

Kepler-32 e

This world receives 56.6× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 2.9 days; the light you see left it 1.06 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.5 × Earth 
A year
2.9 days0.033 AU
Temperature
379 °C652 K

About this world

Kepler-32 e is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-32, a cool red dwarf (type M1V) 1.06 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.5 times the size of Earth and holds 4.1 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 2.9 days at 0.033 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 652 K (379 °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 2012 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-32 has 5 known planets; the others are Kepler-32 f, Kepler-32 b, Kepler-32 c and Kepler-32 d.

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