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Uncommon exoplanet 30 EP

Kepler-62 d

RA 283.2126° · Dec 45.3497° · exoplanet

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Score breakdown

· 4 badges
30 pts · Uncommon
Uncommon 34 pts → Rare
  • Richly packed system +14
  • Super-Earth +8
  • Confirmed exoplanet +5
  • Found by Kepler +3
Total score 30

4 more points to reach Rare.

Badges

  • Confirmed exoplanet · +5
  • Super-Earth · +8
  • Richly packed system · +14
  • Found by Kepler · +3

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Hugging its star. It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.
  • Crowded system. One of at least 5 planets orbiting its star.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 14 it is far too faint for the eye: this one belongs to cameras and long exposures.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around July — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 17.2 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

diameter km
24874.59
discovery facility
Kepler
discovery method
Transit
discovery year
2013
dist ly
981.3186
eccentricity
0
eq temp k
510
host star teff
4925
inclination
89.7
insolation
17.21
mag
13.965
mass earth
14
name
Kepler-62 d
orbital period days
18.1641
radius earth
1.95
semi major au
0.12
spect
K2 V
sys num planets
5
sys num stars
1

About Kepler-62 d

Kepler-62 d is an uncommon exoplanet. It lies about 981.3 light-years from Earth, shines at apparent magnitude 13.96, has spectral type K2 V and has an equilibrium temperature near 510 K.

It orbits closer to its star than Mercury does to the Sun, completing a lap in less time than Mercury takes.

How to see it

At apparent magnitude 13.96, it takes a larger telescope or a long-exposure image to capture.

Like any astronomical target, Kepler-62 d 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-62 d is an uncommon exoplanet

Kepler-62 d scores 30 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the uncommon tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 4 science badges — Confirmed exoplanet, Super-Earth, Richly packed system and Found by Kepler — 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.