About Kepler-468 b
Kepler-468 b is a common exoplanet. It lies about 1,444.5 light-years from Earth, has an equilibrium temperature near 484 K, spans roughly 13.34 Earth radii and completes an orbit every 38.48 days.
About 13.3× the width of Earth.
Common exoplanet 22 EP
Kepler-468 b
RA 288.9023° · Dec 49.3704° · exoplanet
Score breakdown
· 4 badgesCommon 24 pts → Uncommon
- Distant (>1000 ly) +10
- Confirmed exoplanet +5
- Gas giant +4
- Found by Kepler +3
Total score 22
2 more points to reach Uncommon.
Badges
- Confirmed exoplanet · +5
- Gas giant · +4
- Found by Kepler · +3
- Distant (>1000 ly) · +10
Trivia
Could we get there?
- Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.
Getting there
- Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 25.4 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
- Fastest probe ever. ≈ 2.3 million years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.
- At 10% light speed. ≈ 14.4 thousand years in a starship at a tenth of light speed.
- Distance. 1444 light-years from Earth.
Look-back time
- Look-back time. The light you'd see left around the year 582.
Saying hello
- Say hello. A radio message and its reply would take 2889 years round-trip.
Standing on it
- A year here. A full year lasts just 38.5 Earth days.
By the numbers
- Size. About 13.3× the width of Earth.
- Volume. About 2374 Earths could fit inside it.
- Temperature. A scorching 211°C on average.
How we found it
- Discovery. Found by Kepler using the transit method.
Properties
- discovery facility
- Kepler
- discovery method
- Transit
- dist ly
- 1444.4503
- eccentricity
- 0
- eq temp k
- 484
- insolation
- 11.241
- name
- Kepler-468 b
- orbital period days
- 38.4788
- radius earth
- 13.34
- sys num planets
- 1
How to see it
Like any astronomical target, Kepler-468 b is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
Why Kepler-468 b is a common exoplanet
Kepler-468 b scores 22 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 2 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Gas giant, Found by Kepler and Distant (>1000 ly) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.