Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.90 Earth radii
A mass of 8.75 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.04 g
An orbital period of 4.417 days
Semi-major axis 0.0563 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,810 K (1537 °C)
Distance from Earth 2,549.18 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.119
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 44,954,727 years

Kepler-642 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.90 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.259 R♃

Mass

8.75 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.028 M♃

Density

1.97 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.04 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

ESI Score 0.119

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

#621of 1978

top 31.3%

This planet

2.90R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-130 c 2.90 R⊕ Kepler-276 c 2.90 R⊕ Kepler-314 c 2.90 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-642 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.90	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	8.75	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.97	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.04	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	719.37	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 270705735

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077764169742391808

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077764169742391808

System

Kepler-642

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.900 R⊕ · percentile 68 / cohort 1978

Mass 8.750 M⊕ · percentile 62 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 4.42 d · percentile 10 / cohort 1946

Distance 781.58 pc · percentile 64 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.119 · percentile 1 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

4.417 days

Semi-major axis

0.0563 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.58 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 4.42 Earth days (1.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0563 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.029 %

Duration

2.956 h

Impact parameter b

0.730

Rp / R★

0.015809

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,003.7916

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 292 ppm lasting ≈ 2.96 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.015809

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

11.474

Impact parameter (b)

0.730

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,003.7916

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.07200

Eq. Temperature

1,810K

(1537 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

719.37

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.119

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the dayside is scorched.

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-642

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,570 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

1.95 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.660 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.400 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.06

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.140 dex

Stellar density

0.600 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

781.58 parsec

Light-years 2,549.18 ly

V-band magnitude

13.34 mag

Voyager-speed travel 44,954,727 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

1.251 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.143 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

1.41 mas/yr

PM Declination

-1.61 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.297 · y = -0.673 · z = 0.677

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 293.83455° · Dec 42.62495°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.632° · 10.610°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.496° · 62.753°

HTM-20 index

-986483370