Kepler-61b
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Kepler spacecraft |
| Discovery date | 24 April 2013 |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.26 AU (39,000,000 km) | |
| Eccentricity | <0.25 |
| 59.87756 d | |
| Inclination | >89.80 |
| Star | Kepler-61 (KOI-1361) |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 2.15 ± 0.13 R🜨 | |
| Mass | 6.65 ME |
| Temperature | 273 K (0 °C; 32 °F) |
Kepler-61b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-1361.01) is a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within parts of the habitable zone of the K-type main-sequence star Kepler-61. It is located about 1,100 light-years (338 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered in 2013 using the transit method, in which the dimming effect that a planet causes as it crosses in front of its star is measured, by NASA's Kepler spacecraft.