Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 0.54 Earth radii
A mass of 4.00 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 13.72 g
An orbital period of 12.442 days
Semi-major axis 0.0929 AU
Equilibrium temperature 578 K (305 °C)
Distance from Earth 981.32 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.379
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,305,553 years
Almost certainly tidally locked to its host star given the close orbit

4 siblings around Kepler-62

Kepler-62 c shares its host star with 4 other confirmed planets. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet	Type	Radius (R⊕)	Mass (M⊕)	Period (d)	Eq. T (K)	Year
Kepler-62 b	Super-Earth	1.31	9.00	5.715	750	2013
Kepler-62 c this	Rocky Terrestrial	0.54	4.00	12.442	578	2013
Kepler-62 d	Super-Earth	1.95	14.00	18.164	510	2013
Kepler-62 e	Super-Earth	1.61	36.00	122.387	270	2013
Kepler-62 f	Super-Earth	1.41	35.00	267.291	208	2013

Kepler-62 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

0.54 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.048 R♃

Mass

4.00 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.013 M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

13.72 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.379

HZ Position Inner

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2013

Method Transit

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#557of 570

top 97.5%

This planet

0.54R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-444 e 0.55 R⊕ Kepler-444 d 0.53 R⊕ Kepler-1308 b 0.52 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-62 c	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	0.54	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	4.00	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	—	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	13.72	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	28.49	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Best measured mass	4.000 M⊕	Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 164458488

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2107001283431633408

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2107001283431633408

System

Kepler-62

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.540 R⊕ · percentile 2 / cohort 570

Mass 4.000 M⊕ · percentile 94 / cohort 570

Orbital period 12.44 d · percentile 84 / cohort 567

Distance 300.87 pc · percentile 41 / cohort 566

ESI 0.379 · percentile 55 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

12.442 days

Semi-major axis

0.0929 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.70 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 12.44 Earth days (3.4% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0929 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.007 %

Duration

3.020 h

Impact parameter b

0.160

Rp / R★

0.007700

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,967.6510

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 70 ppm lasting ≈ 3.02 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.007700

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

31.400

Impact parameter (b)

0.160

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,967.6510

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.30900

Eq. Temperature

578K

(305 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

28.49

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.379

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.

Detection Signatures

Transit photometry

A transit dip has been observed from at least one telescope.

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Borucki et al. 2013

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2013-05

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2013 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-69 c · Super-Earth Kepler-61 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-62 e · Super-Earth KOI-351 f · Sub-Neptune Kepler-62 f · Super-Earth KOI-351 e · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1704 b · Gas Giant Kepler-37 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-282 e · Sub-Neptune KOI-351 h · Gas Giant KOI-351 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-114 c · Super-Earth

Host System: Kepler-62

Spectral Class

K-type orange

Effective Temperature

4,925 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

7.00 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.640 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.690 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.37

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.680 dex

Stellar density

3.800 g/cm³

Rotational v·sin i

0.40 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

300.87 parsec

Light-years 981.32 ly

V-band magnitude

13.97 mag

Voyager-speed travel 17,305,553 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

3.295 mas

Total Proper Motion

40.053 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-25.15 mas/yr

PM Declination

-31.17 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.161 · y = -0.684 · z = 0.711

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 283.21256° · Dec 45.34970°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.038° · 18.695°

Ecliptic λ, β

294.979° · 67.646°

HTM-20 index

285252744