Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.60 Earth radii
A mass of 3.19 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.25 g
An orbital period of 23.899 days
Semi-major axis 0.1659 AU
Equilibrium temperature 823 K (550 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,269.94 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.360
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 40,030,357 years

Kepler-1069 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.60 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.143 R♃

Mass

3.19 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.010 M♃

Density

4.28 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.25 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.360

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

#570of 1176

top 48.4%

This planet

1.60R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-49 d 1.60 R⊕ Kepler-394 b 1.60 R⊕ Kepler-114 c 1.60 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1069 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.60	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	3.19	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.28	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.25	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	78.18	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 417659970

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129215369685086080

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2129215369685086080

System

Kepler-1069

Percentile among Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.600 R⊕ · percentile 50 / cohort 1176

Mass 3.190 M⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 23.90 d · percentile 88 / cohort 1164

Distance 695.97 pc · percentile 61 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.360 · percentile 53 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

23.899 days

Semi-major axis

0.1659 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.24 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 23.90 Earth days (6.5% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1659 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.027 %

Duration

15.722 h

Impact parameter b

0.014

Rp / R★

0.015372

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,984.3996

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 269 ppm lasting ≈ 15.72 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015372

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

11.503

Impact parameter (b)

0.014

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,984.3996

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.23800

Eq. Temperature

823K

(550 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

78.18

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.360

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-1069

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,722 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.37 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.980 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.990 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.04

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.460 dex

Stellar density

0.280 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

0.49 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

695.97 parsec

Light-years 2,269.94 ly

V-band magnitude

13.23 mag

Voyager-speed travel 40,030,357 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.408 mas

Total Proper Motion

25.401 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-14.58 mas/yr

PM Declination

-20.80 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.240 · y = -0.625 · z = 0.743

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 290.97924° · Dec 47.98891°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.684° · 14.754°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.777° · 68.478°

HTM-20 index

-364471894