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Transit · 2016 · habitable zone

Kepler-967 c

This world receives 1.05× the starlight Earth does; a year lasts 199 days; the light you see left it 1.85 thousand years ago.

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Size
3.6 × Earth 
A year
199 days0.625 AU
Temperature
−15 °C258 K

About this world

Kepler-967 c is a sub-Neptune orbiting Kepler-967, an orange dwarf 1.85 thousand light-years from Earth. It is about 3.6 times the size of Earth. It completes an orbit every 199 days at 0.63 AU from its star.

Its equilibrium temperature is about 258 K (−15 °C), which places it in the optimistic 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 2016 by transit with Kepler. A planet crosses its star and dims it by a tiny, periodic fraction. Kepler-967 has 2 known planets; the others are Kepler-967 b.

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