Kepler-452b
extrasolar planet in the constellation Cygnus
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Summary
Kepler-452b is an unconfirmed exoplanet[1]. Kepler-452b has Wikipedia articles in 58 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Kepler Space Telescope[3]
- Instance of: exoplanet[4]
- Constellation: Cygnus[5]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Kepler Space Telescope[6]
- Commons category: Kepler-452 b[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Kepler-452[8]
- Catalog code: KOI-7016b[9], Kepler-452b[10], KOI-7016.01[11], TIC 272174474b[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: July 23, 2015[13], August 2015[14]
- Located in/on physical feature: circumstellar habitable zone[15]
- Discovery method: transit method[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.035[17]
- Orbital inclination: 89.806 degree[18]
- Radius: 1.5 Earth radius[19], 1.511 Earth radius[20], 1.63 Earth radius[21], 0.145 Jupiter radius[22]
- Orbital period: 384.843022 day[23], 384.843 day[24]
- Parallax: 1.7838 milliarcsecond[25]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 1.046 astronomical unit[26]
- Right ascension: 296.00369206071670 degree[27]
- Declination: 44.27754733740249 degree[28]
- Epoch: J2000.0[29]
- Declination component of proper motion: 9.012 milliarcsecond per year[30]
- Right ascension component of proper motion: 9.974 milliarcsecond per year[31]
Why It Matters
Kepler-452b is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]