Key parameters at a glance

A mass of 954.00 Earth masses
An orbital period of 1,460.000 days
Distance from Earth 312.82 light-years
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 5,516,600 years

1 sibling around Kepler-93

Kepler-93 c shares its host star with 1 other confirmed planet. Side-by-side measurements below.

Planet	Type	Radius (R⊕)	Mass (M⊕)	Period (d)	Eq. T (K)	Year
Kepler-93 b	Super-Earth	1.48	4.66	4.727	1,133	2014
Kepler-93 c this	Unclassified	—	954.00	1,460.000	—	2014

Kepler-93 c Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

— R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

— R♃

Mass

954.00 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

3.000 M♃

Density

— g/cm³

Surface Gravity

— g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Unclassified

ESI Score —

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2014

Method Radial Velocity

Facility W. M. Keck Observatory

Telescope 10 m Keck I Telescope

Metric	Earth	Kepler-93 c	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	—	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	954.00	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	—	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	—	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Best measured mass	954.000 M⊕	Direct mass measurement (not derived).

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 137151335

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2052747119115620352

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2052747119115620352

System

Kepler-93

Percentile among Unclassified cohort

Mass 954.000 M⊕ · percentile 29 / cohort 42

Orbital period 1,460.00 d · percentile 81 / cohort 43

Distance 95.91 pc · percentile 72 / cohort 43

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

1,460.000 days

Semi-major axis

— AU

Eccentricity

—

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts about 4.00 Earth years.

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

—

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Marcy et al. 2014

Instrument

HIRES Spectrometer

Publication

2014-02

Observation locale

Ground

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2014 at W. M. Keck Observatory (11 shown).

HAT-P-44 c · Gas Giant Kepler-94 c · Gas Giant HD 4203 c · Gas Giant Kepler-48 e · Gas Giant Kepler-407 c · Gas Giant HD 10442 b · Gas Giant HD 5319 c · Gas Giant GJ 849 c · Gas Giant HD 75784 b · Gas Giant Kepler-25 d · Gas Giant Kepler-97 c · Unclassified

Host System: Kepler-93

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,669 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

5.05 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.920 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.910 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.18

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.468 dex

Stellar density

1.640 g/cm³

Systemic radial velocity

27.63 km/s

Rotational v·sin i

0.50 km/s

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

95.91 parsec

Light-years 312.82 ly

V-band magnitude

10.00 mag

Voyager-speed travel 5,516,600 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

10.397 mas

Total Proper Motion

29.265 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-28.73 mas/yr

PM Declination

-5.59 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.285 · y = -0.727 · z = 0.625

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 291.41813° · Dec 38.67231°

Galactic ℓ, b

71.204° · 10.458°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.274° · 59.589°

HTM-20 index

2107824698