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Transit · 2015

Kepler-445 c

This world receives 9.18× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 4.87 days; the light you see left it 415 years ago.

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Size
2.5 × Earth 
A year
4.87 days0.0301 AU
Temperature
68 °C341 K

About this world

Kepler-445 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-445, a cool red dwarf (type M4) 415 light-years from Earth. It is about 2.5 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 4.87 days at 0.03 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 341 K (68 °C): too cold for liquid water on its 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. Kepler-445 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-445 b and Kepler-445 d.

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