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Kepler-56 b

2,977.79 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2012
Radius
6.51 (+0.29 / −0.28) Earth radii
Mass
22.1 (+3.9 / −3.6) Earth masses
Orbital period
10.5016 (+1.1 × 10⁻³ / −1 × 10⁻³) days
Semi-major axis
0.1028 (+3.7 × 10⁻³ / −3.7 × 10⁻³) AU
Equilibrium temperature
1,378 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.

NASA archive record and references ↗

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