Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 1.41 Earth radii
A mass of 35.00 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 17.60 g
An orbital period of 267.291 days
Semi-major axis 0.7180 AU
Equilibrium temperature 208 K (-65 °C)
Distance from Earth 981.32 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.539
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 17,305,553 years

Context from the literature

Kepler-62f is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the star Kepler-62, the outermost of five such planets discovered around the star by NASA's Kepler space telescope. It is located about 982 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Lyra.

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4 siblings around Kepler-62

Kepler-62 f 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	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 this	Super-Earth	1.41	35.00	267.291	208	2013

Kepler-62 f Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

1.41 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.126 R♃

Mass

35.00 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.110 M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

17.60 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Super-Earth

ESI Score 0.539

HZ Position Habitable

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2013

Method Transit

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#902of 1176

top 76.6%

This planet

1.41R⊕

Super-Earth median

1.60R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-369 c 1.41 R⊕ Kepler-334 d 1.41 R⊕ Kepler-141 c 1.41 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-62 f	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	1.41	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	35.00	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	—	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	17.60	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	0.50	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Best measured mass	35.000 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 Super-Earth cohort

Radius 1.410 R⊕ · percentile 22 / cohort 1176

Mass 35.000 M⊕ · percentile 98 / cohort 1176

Orbital period 267.29 d · percentile 100 / cohort 1164

Distance 300.87 pc · percentile 31 / cohort 1171

ESI 0.539 · percentile 76 / cohort 1176

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

267.291 days

Semi-major axis

0.7180 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.90 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 267.29 Earth days (73.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.7180 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.042 %

Duration

7.460 h

Impact parameter b

0.410

Rp / R★

0.020300

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,422.7100

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 420 ppm lasting ≈ 7.46 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.020300

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

243.000

Impact parameter (b)

0.410

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,422.7100

Angular separation (arcsec)

2.39000

Eq. Temperature

208K

(-65 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

0.50

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.539

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Within the conservative habitable zone — surface water would be frozen.

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 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 Kepler-396 b · Sub-Neptune

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

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