Kepler-182

Multiple planet systems.

Kepler 182 is a yellow star located 4699ly away,[1] in the night sky at RA2000 19:19:19.2 and Dec+50:35:10.[2]

The star is notable for having two planets in the habitable zone.[3]

Kepler-182 is a star with a mass 1.14 times the suns mass a radius 1.15± 0.51 th suns and a Metallicity 0.077 times the sun.[4] Kepler 182 has an effective temperature of 6250.0± 200.0K.[5]

Planets

Discovered in 2014[6] The planets were discovered by the Kepler Space teliscope Transit data.

The Kepler-182 planetary system hosts at least 2 planets.

Kepler 182 is also known as KOI-546, and KIC 12058931.[7]

References

  1. ↑ 1441parsec.
  2. ↑ Planet Kepler-182 c.
  3. ↑ The Smallest Potentially Habitable Exoplanet Now Fully Published.
  4. ↑ Planet Kepler-182 c.
  5. ↑ Kepler’s Tally of Planets, New York Times 18 April 2013.
  6. ↑ NASA's Kepler announces 11 planetary systems hosting 26 planets.
  7. ↑ .
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