About this world
Kepler-99 b is a super-Earth orbiting Kepler-99, an orange dwarf 680 light-years from Earth. It is about 1.5 times the size of Earth and holds 6.2 Earth masses. It completes an orbit every 4.6 days at 0.051 AU from its star, closer than Mercury is to the Sun.
Its equilibrium temperature is about 810 K (537 °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.