Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.25 Earth radii
A mass of 5.69 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.12 g
An orbital period of 24.993 days
Semi-major axis 0.1685 AU
Equilibrium temperature 712 K (439 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,520.75 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.370
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 26,818,447 years

Kepler-467 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.25 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.201 R♃

Mass

5.69 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.018 M♃

Density

2.74 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.12 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.370

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

#1589of 1978

top 80.3%

This planet

2.25R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-300 c 2.25 R⊕ GJ 667 C b 2.25 R⊕ Kepler-342 b 2.25 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-467 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.25	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	5.69	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.74	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.12	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	72.75	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 121214078

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2099605968225288960

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2099605968225288960

System

Kepler-467

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.250 R⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1978

Mass 5.690 M⊕ · percentile 19 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 24.99 d · percentile 69 / cohort 1946

Distance 466.27 pc · percentile 45 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.370 · percentile 46 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

24.993 days

Semi-major axis

0.1685 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.37 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 24.99 Earth days (6.8% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1685 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.027 %

Duration

5.908 h

Impact parameter b

0.762

Rp / R★

0.015403

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,971.6824

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 270 ppm lasting ≈ 5.91 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015403

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

21.600

Impact parameter (b)

0.762

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,971.6824

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.36100

Eq. Temperature

712K

(439 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

72.75

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.370

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-467

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,809 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

8.13 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.370 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.050 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.180 dex

Stellar density

0.380 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

466.27 parsec

Light-years 1,520.75 ly

V-band magnitude

12.43 mag

Voyager-speed travel 26,818,447 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 17 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.116 mas

Total Proper Motion

38.342 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

14.23 mas/yr

PM Declination

35.60 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.233 · y = -0.745 · z = 0.625

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 287.36291° · Dec 38.64973°

Galactic ℓ, b

69.796° · 13.310°

Ecliptic λ, β

298.153° · 60.403°

HTM-20 index

-698402399