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Transit · 2014

Kepler-81 d

This world receives 7.51× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 20.8 days; the light you see left it 1.14 thousand years ago.

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Size
1.2 × Earth 
A year
20.8 days0.128 AU
Temperature
145 °C418 K

About this world

Kepler-81 d is an Earth-sized planet orbiting Kepler-81, a cool red dwarf (type M0V) 1.14 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 1.2 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 20.8 days at 0.13 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 418 K (145 °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 2014 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-81 has 3 known planets; the others are Kepler-81 b and Kepler-81 c.

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