Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.58 Earth radii
A mass of 7.18 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.08 g
An orbital period of 8.508 days
Semi-major axis 0.0836 AU
Equilibrium temperature 909 K (636 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,633.64 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.274
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 46,444,318 years

Kepler-500 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.58 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.230 R♃

Mass

7.18 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.023 M♃

Density

2.30 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.08 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.274

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

#1057of 1978

top 53.4%

This planet

2.58R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-1018 b 2.58 R⊕ Kepler-169 f 2.58 R⊕ Kepler-461 b 2.58 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-500 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.58	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	7.18	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.30	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.08	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	193.68	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 271968263

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2079563829758338432

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2079563829758338432

System

Kepler-500

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.580 R⊕ · percentile 46 / cohort 1978

Mass 7.180 M⊕ · percentile 43 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 8.51 d · percentile 28 / cohort 1946

Distance 807.48 pc · percentile 66 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.274 · percentile 22 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

8.508 days

Semi-major axis

0.0836 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.99 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 8.51 Earth days (2.3% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0836 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.065 %

Duration

3.503 h

Impact parameter b

0.720

Rp / R★

0.023242

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.7866

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 652 ppm lasting ≈ 3.50 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.023242

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

19.251

Impact parameter (b)

0.720

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.7866

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10400

Eq. Temperature

909K

(636 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

193.68

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.274

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-500

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,813 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.37 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.030 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.020 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.03

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.420 dex

Stellar density

0.820 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

807.48 parsec

Light-years 2,633.64 ly

V-band magnitude

14.32 mag

Voyager-speed travel 46,444,318 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 12 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.210 mas

Total Proper Motion

11.775 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-3.35 mas/yr

PM Declination

-11.29 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.316 · y = -0.648 · z = 0.693

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 295.95135° · Dec 43.85199°

Galactic ℓ, b

77.466° · 9.819°

Ecliptic λ, β

314.657° · 63.323°

HTM-20 index

-1517605614