Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 12.68 Earth radii
An orbital period of 3.771 days
Semi-major axis 0.0493 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,302 K (1029 °C)
Distance from Earth 6,191.29 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.034
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 109,183,373 years

Kepler-762 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

12.68 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.131 R♃

Mass

— M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

— M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

— g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.034

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

#1167of 1771

top 65.8%

This planet

12.68R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-434 b 12.67 R⊕ K2-253 b 12.67 R⊕ HD 189733 b 12.67 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-762 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	12.68	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	—	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	—	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	—	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	1,065.73	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159725995

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2129158710476149376

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2129158710476149376

System

Kepler-762

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 12.680 R⊕ · percentile 34 / cohort 1771

Orbital period 3.77 d · percentile 26 / cohort 1533

Distance 1,898.26 pc · percentile 90 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.034 · percentile 1 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

3.771 days

Semi-major axis

0.0493 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.64 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 3.77 Earth days (1.0% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0493 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

1.389 %

Duration

3.828 h

Impact parameter b

0.024

Rp / R★

0.108472

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,190.1182

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 13,892 ppm lasting ≈ 3.83 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.108472

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

8.364

Impact parameter (b)

0.024

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,190.1182

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.02600

Eq. Temperature

1,302K

(1029 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

1,065.73

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.034

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-762

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,944 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.80 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.080 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.060 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.400 dex

Stellar density

0.779 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,898.26 parsec

Light-years 6,191.29 ly

V-band magnitude

15.57 mag

Voyager-speed travel 109,183,373 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.498 mas

Total Proper Motion

2.038 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

2.02 mas/yr

PM Declination

-0.28 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.246 · y = -0.632 · z = 0.735

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.27566° · Dec 47.32951°

Galactic ℓ, b

79.150° · 14.299°

Ecliptic λ, β

310.590° · 67.793°

HTM-20 index

-26106242