Key parameters at a glance

A mass of 100.00 Earth masses
An orbital period of 30.000 days
Semi-major axis 0.1700 AU
Distance from Earth 3,056.12 light-years
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 53,894,746 years

2 siblings around Kepler-160

Kepler-160 d shares its host star with 2 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet	Type	Radius (R⊕)	Mass (M⊕)	Period (d)	Eq. T (K)	Year
Kepler-160 b	Super-Earth	1.72	3.59	4.309	1,134	2014
Kepler-160 c	Sub-Neptune	3.76	13.60	13.699	771	2014
Kepler-160 d this	Unclassified	—	100.00	30.000	—	2020

Kepler-160 d Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

— R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

— R♃

Mass

100.00 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.315 M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

— g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Unclassified

ESI Score —

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2020

Method Transit Timing Variations

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Metric	Earth	Kepler-160 d	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	—	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	100.00	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	—	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	—	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Best measured mass	100.000 M⊕	Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158555483

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2102587087846067712

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2102587087846067712

System

Kepler-160

Percentile among Unclassified cohort

Mass 100.000 M⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 42

Orbital period 30.00 d · percentile 56 / cohort 43

Distance 937.01 pc · percentile 95 / cohort 43

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

30.000 days

Semi-major axis

0.1700 AU

Eccentricity

—

Inclination

86.90 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 30.00 Earth days (8.2% of a terrestrial year) at a mean orbital distance of 0.1700 AU.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

—

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Heller et al. 2020

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2020-06

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2020 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1649 c · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-1701 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1690 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1700 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1684 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1678 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-598 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1661 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1663 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1681 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1672 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1702 b · Super-Earth

Host System: Kepler-160

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,471 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

6.03 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.118 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.003 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.20

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.470 dex

Stellar density

1.200 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

937.01 parsec

Light-years 3,056.12 ly

V-band magnitude

14.82 mag

Voyager-speed travel 53,894,746 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.039 mas

Total Proper Motion

6.265 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

3.48 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.21 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.224 · y = -0.698 · z = 0.680

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.77357° · Dec 42.86928°

Galactic ℓ, b

73.903° · 14.735°

Ecliptic λ, β

301.175° · 64.397°

HTM-20 index

-1922886593