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Kepler-42 c

130.66 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2011
Radius
0.73 (+0.2 / −0.2) Earth radii
Mass
< 60.337 Earth masses
Orbital period
0.4533 (+9.7 × 10⁻⁷ / −9.7 × 10⁻⁷) days
Semi-major axis
6 × 10⁻³ AU
Equilibrium temperature
720 (+73 / −73) K
Mass provenance
Mass

Measurements may come from different studies and need not form one self-consistent model. “Msini” is a minimum mass; a mass inferred from radius is an estimate. Equilibrium temperature is a model estimate, not a measured surface temperature or evidence of habitability.

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Snapshot retrieved: 2026-10-11T04:15:07.688253+00:00