Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 6.64 Earth radii
A mass of 35.70 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.81 g
An orbital period of 161.528 days
Semi-major axis 0.5874 AU
Equilibrium temperature 366 K (93 °C)
Distance from Earth 7,341.87 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.421
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 129,473,860 years

Kepler-767 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

6.64 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.592 R♃

Mass

35.70 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.112 M♃

Density

0.67 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.81 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Neptune-like

ESI Score 0.421

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

#228of 574

top 39.5%

This planet

6.64R⊕

Neptune-like median

6.39R⊕

Nearest-size peers

GJ 15 A c 6.67 R⊕ TOI-4940 b 6.61 R⊕ Kepler-139 f 6.67 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-767 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	6.64	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	35.70	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	0.67	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.81	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	9.37	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137220387

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2052567623840745216

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2052567623840745216

System

Kepler-767

Percentile among Neptune-like cohort

Radius 6.640 R⊕ · percentile 60 / cohort 574

Mass 35.700 M⊕ · percentile 58 / cohort 574

Orbital period 161.53 d · percentile 88 / cohort 524

Distance 2,251.03 pc · percentile 90 / cohort 572

ESI 0.421 · percentile 77 / cohort 574

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

161.528 days

Semi-major axis

0.5874 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

90.00 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 161.53 Earth days (44.2% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.5874 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.465 %

Duration

3.694 h

Impact parameter b

0.029

Rp / R★

0.064970

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,455,031.0011

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 4,654 ppm lasting ≈ 3.69 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.064970

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

356.700

Impact parameter (b)

0.029

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,455,031.0011

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.26100

Eq. Temperature

366K

(93 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

9.37

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.421

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — liquid water is physically possible with adequate atmospheric pressure.

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-767

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,694 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.07 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.940 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.960 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.05

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.480 dex

Stellar density

32.905 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

2,251.03 parsec

Light-years 7,341.87 ly

V-band magnitude

15.68 mag

Voyager-speed travel 129,473,860 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.416 mas

Total Proper Motion

5.928 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-1.14 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.82 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.290 · y = -0.732 · z = 0.616

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.57916° · Dec 38.03581°

Galactic ℓ, b

70.683° · 10.060°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.156° · 58.943°

HTM-20 index

2000039381