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Kepler-172 b

2,702.51 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2014
Radius
2.35 (+0.42 / −0.42) Earth radii
Mass
6.12 Earth masses
Orbital period
2.9403 (+7 × 10⁻⁶ / −7 × 10⁻⁶) days
Semi-major axis
0.04 AU
Equilibrium temperature
1,256 K
Mass provenance
M-R relationship

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.

NASA archive record and references ↗

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