Key parameters at a glance

A radius of 13.40 Earth radii
A mass of 635.66 Earth masses
Surface gravity around 3.54 g
An orbital period of 2.074 days
Distance from Earth 2,351.93 light-years
Earth Similarity Index 0.365
Travel time at Voyager 1 speed 41,476,234 years

KIC 10068024 b Planet Profile

Physical Specs

Radius

13.40 R⊕

Radius (Jupiter)

1.190 R♃

Mass

635.66 M⊕

Mass (Jupiter)

2.000 M♃

Density

1.45 g/cm³

Surface Gravity

3.54 g (Earth)

Classification

Planet Type

Gas Giant

ESI Score 0.365

HZ Position Unknown

Controversial No

Discovery

Year 2021

Method Orbital Brightness Modulation

Facility Kepler

Telescope 0.95 m Kepler Telescope

Size rank in cohort

Rank by radius

#730of 1771

top 41.2%

This planet

13.40R⊕

Gas Giant median

13.52R⊕

Nearest-size peers

HD 114783 c 13.40 R⊕ HIP 79431 b 13.40 R⊕ HD 68988 b 13.40 R⊕

Metric	Earth	KIC 10068024 b	Jupiter
Radius (R⊕)	1.00	13.40	11.21
Mass (M⊕)	1.00	635.66	317.83
Density (g/cm³)	5.51	1.45	1.33
Surface Gravity (g)	1.00	3.54	2.53
Insolation (S⊕)	1.00	—	0.037

Alternative Mass Estimates

Method	Value	Interpretation
Minimum mass (M sin i)	635.657 M⊕	Lower bound from radial-velocity fitting.

Star Catalogue Identifiers

TIC

TIC 158840777

Gaia DR2

Gaia DR2 2127798958189867392

Gaia DR3

Gaia DR3 2127798958189867392

System

KIC 10068024

Percentile among Gas Giant cohort

Radius 13.400 R⊕ · percentile 56 / cohort 1771

Mass 635.657 M⊕ · percentile 55 / cohort 1747

Orbital period 2.07 d · percentile 7 / cohort 1533

Distance 721.11 pc · percentile 81 / cohort 1759

ESI 0.365 · percentile 75 / cohort 1771

Orbit & Habitability

Orbital Dynamics

Period

2.074 days

Semi-major axis

— AU

Eccentricity

—

Inclination

— °

Year Length

A year here lasts approximately 2.07 Earth days (0.6% of a terrestrial year).

Eq. Temperature

—

Insolation (S⊕)

—

Earth = 1.00

Earth Similarity (ESI)

0.365

0 = alien, 1 = Earth-identical

Detection Signatures

Radial velocity

Stellar wobble has been measured spectroscopically.

Orbital-brightness modulation

Host star brightness varies with the planet's orbit.

Discovery Paper

Primary reference

Lillo Box et al. 2021

Instrument

Kepler CCD Array

Publication

2021-10

Observation locale

Space

Discovery cohort

Planets confirmed in 2021 at Kepler (12 shown).

Kepler-1816 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1705 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1948 b · Rocky Terrestrial Kepler-196 d · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1853 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1840 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1881 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1858 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1874 b · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1802 c · Sub-Neptune Kepler-1749 b · Super-Earth Kepler-1849 b · Sub-Neptune

Host System: KIC 10068024

Spectral Class

F-type yellow-white

Effective Temperature

6,118 K — hotter than the Sun (5,778 K)

Estimated Age

0.56 Gyr — younger than the Sun (4.6 Gyr)

Stellar Radius

1.574 R☉

Stellar Mass

1.220 M☉

Metallicity [Fe/H]

0.01

Extended Stellar Properties

Surface gravity (log g)

4.092 dex

Stellar density

7.787 g/cm³

Metallicity ratio

[Fe/H]

Distance

721.11 parsec

Light-years 2,351.93 ly

V-band magnitude

13.14 mag

Voyager-speed travel 41,476,234 yr

Multi-band Host Photometry — 16 bands

Astrometric Data

Total Proper Motion

33.079 mas/yr

PM Right Ascension

-32.73 mas/yr

PM Declination

-4.80 mas/yr

Galactic Cartesian (pc)

x = 0.220 · y = -0.645 · z = 0.732

Equatorial (J2000)

RA 288.84704° · Dec 47.02286°

Galactic ℓ, b

78.167° · 15.683°

Ecliptic λ, β

306.196° · 68.107°

HTM-20 index

1652565729