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NASA - 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View
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RE: NASA - 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View
Kepler-22 lies around 619.7 ly from Earth 'in' the constellation of Cygnus. It is a class G5 star, with a luminosity of 0.667, taking our Sun as luminosity of 1, and a surface temperature of 5,770 Kelvin. Its radius is 0.98 of our Sun, approximately 681,000 km and has a rotation period of 23.3 days.

Kepler-22b has a radius of 15,290 km, a surface temperature of 251 Kelvin and a rotation period of 1.151 days. It orbits around 0.849 au from its parent star and is simulated in Celestia like this:





Clearly the surface texture is purely hypothetical since we can't observe it in that much detail.

If it's not Kep-22b you wanted, once you do figure out what planet you've got in mind, I'll try to simulate that one for you.

All data taken from Celestia, the free space simulation program. Information and updates regarding new exoplanet discoveries were downloaded from CelestiaMotherlode.net.
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RE: NASA - 41 New Transiting Planets in Kepler Field of View - by Cyberman - August 23, 2012 at 5:53 pm

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