Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 2.46 Earth radii
A mass of 6.62 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 1.09 g
An orbital period of 14.204 days
Semi-major axis 0.1041 AU
Equilibrium temperature 602 K (329 °C)
Distance from Earth 3,317.66 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.421
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 58,506,910 years

Kepler-933 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

2.46 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

0.219 R♃

Mass

6.62 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

0.021 M♃

Density

2.44 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

1.09 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Sub-Neptune

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

#1245of 1978

top 62.9%

This planet

2.46R⊕

Sub-Neptune median

2.71R⊕

Nearest-size peers

TOI-5800 b 2.46 R⊕ Kepler-282 d 2.46 R⊕ GJ 3341 b 2.46 R⊕

Metric	Earth	Kepler-933 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	2.46	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	6.62	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	2.44	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	1.09	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	61.32	0.037

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 159099716

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2102865436087077632

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2102865436087077632

System

Kepler-933

Percentile among Sub-Neptune cohort

Radius 2.460 R⊕ · percentile 37 / cohort 1978

Mass 6.620 M⊕ · percentile 35 / cohort 1978

Orbital period 14.20 d · percentile 49 / cohort 1946

Distance 1,017.20 pc · percentile 79 / cohort 1975

ESI 0.421 · percentile 57 / cohort 1978

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

14.204 days

Semi-major axis

0.1041 AU

Eccentricity

0.000

Inclination

89.98 °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 14.20 Earth days (3.9% of a terrestrial year) on a nearly circular orbit at a mean orbital distance of 0.1041 AU.

Transit Fingerprint

Depth

0.080 %

Duration

3.979 h

Impact parameter b

0.011

Rp / R★

0.026872

Transit midpoint (BJD)

2,454,975.7334

Photometric dip

Transit produces a flux drop of 801 ppm lasting ≈ 3.98 h.

Extended Orbital Architecture

Planet / star radius ratio

0.026872

Semi-major axis / stellar radius

28.560

Impact parameter (b)

0.011

Transit mid-time (BJD)

2,454,975.7334

Angular separation (arcsec)

0.10200

Eq. Temperature

602K

(329 °C)

Insolation (S⊕)

61.32

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.421

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Inside the inner HZ boundary (too hot for liquid water) — the surface is too hot to retain surface water.

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-933

Spectral Class

G-type yellow (Sun-like)

Effective Temperature

5,346 K — cooler than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

4.68 Gyr — older than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

0.840 R☉

Stellar Mass

0.870 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

-0.02

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.540 dex

Stellar density

2.020 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

1,017.20 parsec

Light-years 3,317.66 ly

V-band magnitude

15.61 mag

Voyager-speed travel 58,506,910 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Parallax

0.955 mas

Total Proper Motion

18.863 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-14.31 mas/yr

PM Declination

-12.29 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.243 · y = -0.683 · z = 0.689

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 289.56853° · Dec 43.53854°

Galactic ℓ, b

75.083° · 13.811°

Ecliptic λ, β

304.542° · 64.649°

HTM-20 index

903329321