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Transit · 2015 · habitable zone

Kepler-443 b

This world receives 1.16× less starlight than Earth; a year lasts 178 days; the light you see left it 2.62 thousand years ago.

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Size
2.3 × Earth 
A year
178 days0.495 AU
Temperature
−40 °C233 K

About this world

Kepler-443 b is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-443, an orange dwarf 2.62 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 2.3 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 178 days at 0.49 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 233 K (−40 °C), which places it in the conservative habitable zone: the band where liquid water could exist on a rocky surface. At its size it almost certainly keeps a deep envelope of hydrogen and helium.

It was discovered in 2015 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction.

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