Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 0.82 Earth radii
A mass of 0.48 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 0.71 g
An orbital period of 2.364 days
Semi-major axis 0.0375 AU
Equilibrium temperature 1,752 K (1479 °C)
Distance from Earth 1,305.57 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.161
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 23,023,666 years

Kepler-910 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

0.82 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.073 R♃

Mass

0.48 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.002 M♃

Density

4.75 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

0.71 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Rocky Terrestrial

ESI Score 0.161

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

#465of 570

top 81.4%

This planet

0.82R⊕

Rocky Terrestrial median

1.01R⊕

Nearest-size peers

Kepler-32 f 0.82 R⊕ Kepler-106 b 0.82 R⊕ Kepler-390 b 0.82 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-910 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	0.82	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	0.48	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	4.75	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	0.71	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	2,108.07	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 272178989

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2077243138673356928

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2077243138673356928

System

Kepler-910

Percentile among Rocky Terrestrial cohort

Radius 0.820 R⊕ · percentile 17 / cohort 570

Mass 0.477 M⊕ · percentile 15 / cohort 570

Orbital period 2.36 d · percentile 27 / cohort 567

Distance 400.29 pc · percentile 53 / cohort 566

ESI 0.161 · percentile 7 / cohort 570

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.364 days

Semi-major axis

0.0375 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

88.44 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.36 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.0375 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.003 %

Duration

3.285 h

Impact parameter b

0.812

Rp / R★

0.004921

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,965.2501

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 29 ppm lasting ≈ 3.29 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.004921

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

3.150

Impact parameter (b)

0.812

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,965.2501

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.09370

Eq. Temperature

1,752K

(1479 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

2,108.07

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.161

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-910

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,230 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

3.39 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.500 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.260 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.12

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.190 dex

Stellar density

0.380 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

-1.66 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

400.29 parsec

Light-years 1,305.57 ly

V-band magnitude

11.44 mag

Voyager-speed travel 23,023,666 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

2.470 mas

Total Proper Motion

16.156 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-11.56 mas/yr

PM Declination

-11.29 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.322 · y = -0.660 · z = 0.679

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 296.04729° · Dec 42.74294°

Galactic ℓ, b

76.512° · 9.228°

Ecliptic λ, β

313.872° · 62.272°

HTM-20 index

-1584217788