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Kepler-53 c

4,455.52 light-years

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Discovery
Transit · 2012
Radius
3.17 Earth radii
Mass
< 36 Earth masses
Orbital period
38.5583 (+4.1 × 10⁻⁴ / −4.1 × 10⁻⁴) days
Semi-major axis
0.2209 (+2.58 × 10⁻³ / −2.58 × 10⁻³) AU
Equilibrium temperature
550 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