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Transit · 2012

Kepler-32 f

This world receives 350× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 17.8 hours; the light you see left it 1.06 thousand years ago.

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Size
0.82 × Earth 
A year
17.8 hours0.013 AU
Temperature
753 °C1,026 K

About this world

Kepler-32 f is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-32, a cool red dwarf (type M1V) 1.06 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 0.82 times the size of Earth and holds 970 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 17.8 hours at 0.013 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 1,026 K (753 °C): far too hot for liquid water on its surface. By the "cosmic shoreline", it has likely held on to an atmosphere.

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 e, Kepler-32 b, Kepler-32 c and Kepler-32 d.

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