Kepler-296b
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovery date | 2014 |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.079±0.013 AU | |
| Eccentricity | < 0.33 |
| 10.8644+0.0001 −0.0000 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 1.6±0.3 R🜨 (0.14+0.03 −0.02 RJ) | |
| Mass | 3.22 M🜨 |
Kepler-296b is an s-type exoplanet located in the binary star system Kepler-296. All 5 planets in this system orbit around the primary star.
It has been classed as a hot superterran.
It was discovered by the Kepler space telescope in 2014 using the transit method and was originally classed as a planet candidate, but during a study by members of the NASA Ames Research Center on two other planets in the Kepler-296 system, Kepler-296f and Kepler-296e, they were able to confirm that Kepler-296b is an exoplanet with "more than 99% confidence".