Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.18 Earth radii
A mass of 1.76 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.26 g
An orbital period of 2.461 days
Semi-major axis 0.0304 AU
Equilibrium temperature 969 K (696 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,855.57 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.324
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 50,357,988 years
Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

Kepler-1430 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.18 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.105 R♃

Mass

1.76 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.006 M♃

Density

5.89 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.26 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.324

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

#117of 570

top 20.4%

This planet

1.18R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-847 b 1.18 R⊕ Kepler-1512 b 1.18 R⊕ Kepler-332 d 1.18 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1430 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.18	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	1.76	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	5.89	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.26	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	208.54	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159105397

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2102816404740404224

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2102816404740404224

System

Kepler-1430

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 1.180 R⊕ · percentile 77 / cohort 570

Mass 1.760 M⊕ · percentile 71 / cohort 570

Orbital period 2.46 d · percentile 29 / cohort 567

Distance 875.52 pc · percentile 90 / cohort 566

ESI 0.324 · percentile 45 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.461 days

Semi-major axis

0.0304 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.71 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.46 Earth days (0.7% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0304 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.028 %

Duration

2.003 h

Impact parameter b

0.030

Rp / R★

0.014847

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,966.6125

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 277 ppm lasting ≈ 2.00 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.014847

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

9.680

Impact parameter (b)

0.030

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,966.6125

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.03470

Eq. Temperature

969K

(696 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

208.54

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.324

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water. Close-orbiting tidally-locked around a cool host.

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-1430

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,796 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

2.09 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.720 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.770 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.620 dex

Stellar density

2.636 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

875.52 parsec

Light-years 2,855.57 ly

V-band magnitude

15.57 mag

Voyager-speed travel 50,357,988 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.070 mas

Total Proper Motion

28.684 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

5.38 mas/yr

PM Declination

-28.18 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.245 · y = -0.684 · z = 0.687

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 289.69754° · Dec 43.37196°

Galactic ℓ, b

74.967° · 13.657°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.628° · 64.461°

HTM-20 index

1020473949