Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.38 Earth radii
A mass of 6.26 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.11 g
An orbital period of 46.878 days
Semi-major axis 0.2495 AU
Equilibrium temperature 484 K (211 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,087.28 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.520
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 54,444,154 years

Kepler-1060 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.38 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.212 R♃

Mass

6.26 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.020 M♃

Density

2.55 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.11 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.520

HZ Position Inner

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2016

Method Transit

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#1365of 1978

top 69.0%

This planet

2.38R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-166 c 2.38 R⊕ Kepler-189 c 2.38 R⊕ Kepler-1249 b 2.38 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1060 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.38	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	6.26	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.55	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.11	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	17.42	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 120691237

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2100653527927414272

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2100653527927414272

System

Kepler-1060

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.380 R⊕ · percentile 31 / cohort 1978

Mass 6.260 M⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 46.88 d · percentile 84 / cohort 1946

Distance 946.57 pc · percentile 75 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.520 · percentile 73 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

46.878 days

Semi-major axis

0.2495 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

87.75 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 46.88 Earth days (12.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.2495 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.054 %

Duration

9.635 h

Impact parameter b

0.633

Rp / R★

0.022492

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,970.6634

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 540 ppm lasting ≈ 9.64 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.022492

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

30.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.633

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,970.6634

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.26400

Eq. Temperature

484K

(211 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

17.42

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.520

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Morton et al. 2016

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2016-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2016 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1512 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1410 b · Super-Earth Kepler-560 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1389 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1450 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1544 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1459 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1638 b · Super-Earth Kepler-737 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1185 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1178 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1040 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: Kepler-1060

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,797 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.27 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.990 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.990 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.440 dex

Stellar density

0.297 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

946.57 parsec

Light-years 3,087.28 ly

V-band magnitude

14.83 mag

Voyager-speed travel 54,444,154 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.028 mas

Total Proper Motion

4.904 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

4.59 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.73 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.213 · y = -0.740 · z = 0.638

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 286.02523° · Dec 39.63092°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.291° · 14.655°

Ecliptic λ, β

296.550° · 61.601°

HTM-20 index

1614518781