Kepler-10 was named because it was the tenth planetary system observed by the Kepler spacecraft, a NASA satellite designed to search for Earth-like planets that transit, or cross in front of, their host stars with respect to Earth.

2025年3月28日 · Kepler-10 c is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its mass is 11.4 Earths, it takes 45.3 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.241 AU from its star.

Kepler-10 is a G-type star located 187 parsecs (608 light years) from Earth. It is 0.895 solar masses and 1.056 solar radii, making it slightly less massive than the Sun, but approximately the same size. With an effective temperature of 5627 K, Kepler-10 is cooler than the Sun.

A Decade of Kepler Planet-host Radial Velocities from W. M. Keck Observatory. Cold Jupiters and improved masses in 38 Kepler and K2 small-planet systems from 3661 high-precision HARPS-N radial velocities. No excess of cold Jupiters in small …

2024年10月25日 · In the foreground is Kepler-10c, a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. Planet formation theorists are challenged to explain how such a massive world could have formed. An artist's conception shows the Kepler-10 system, home to two rocky planets.

2024年10月25日 · This artist's conception depicts the Kepler-10 star system, located about 560 light-years away near the Cygnus and Lyra constellations. Kepler has discovered two planets around this star.

Planet Kepler-10b was the first planet to be discovered in the orbit of its star. For this, it was designated the star's b planet. The star, in turn, was named for the Kepler Mission, a NASA-led operation aimed at discovering terrestrial planets that transit, or cross in front of, their host stars with respect to Earth. [9] .

Kepler-10b has a density 4.6 times that of Earth, or similar to an iron dumbbell. This planet orbits its star, Kepler-10, once every 0.84 days (20 hours) and is 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our Sun.

2011年1月10日 · Kepler-10 was the first star identified that could potentially harbor a small transiting planet, placing it at the top of the list for ground-based observations with the W.M. Keck Observatory 10-meter telescope in Hawaii.

5 天之前 · In this way we improved the characterization of the Kepler-10 planetary system (Sect. 4) with regard to both its orbital architecture and the determination of precise masses, and thus possible compositions, of the Kepler-10 b and Kepler-10 c transiting planets.