Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 3.82 Earth radii
A mass of 14.00 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.96 g
An orbital period of 65.649 days
Semi-major axis 0.3094 AU
Equilibrium temperature 390 K (117 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,319.68 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.515
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 58,542,571 years

Kepler-1462 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

3.82 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.341 R♃

Mass

14.00 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.044 M♃

Density

1.38 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.96 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.515

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

#54of 1978

top 2.7%

This planet

3.82R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TOI-3261 b 3.82 R⊕ KMT-2024-BLG-2242L b 3.82 R⊕ TOI-5938 b 3.82 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-1462 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	3.82	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	14.00	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.38	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.96	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	4.70	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 272376022

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077176618218057216

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077176618218057216

System

Kepler-1462

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 3.820 R⊕ · percentile 97 / cohort 1978

Mass 14.000 M⊕ · percentile 90 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 65.65 d · percentile 90 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,017.82 pc · percentile 79 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.515 · percentile 72 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

65.649 days

Semi-major axis

0.3094 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.97 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 65.65 Earth days (18.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.3094 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.098 %

Duration

7.431 h

Impact parameter b

0.038

Rp / R★

0.035295

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,007.7942

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 984 ppm lasting ≈ 7.43 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.035295

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

70.610

Impact parameter (b)

0.038

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,007.7942

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.30400

Eq. Temperature

390K

(117 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

4.70

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.515

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-1462

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,756 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.07 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.000 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.000 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.450 dex

Stellar density

1.496 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,017.82 parsec

Light-years 3,319.68 ly

V-band magnitude

15.89 mag

Voyager-speed travel 58,542,571 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.956 mas

Total Proper Motion

3.446 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.44 mas/yr

PM Declination

0.17 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.328 · y = -0.661 · z = 0.674

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.39754° · Dec 42.39693°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.330° · 8.835°

Ecliptic λ, β

314.106° · 61.854°

HTM-20 index

1407003918