Discovery | |
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Discovered by | Kepler spacecraft |
Discovery date | 2012 (dubious) 12 June 2014 (confirmed)[1] |
Transit method[1] | |
Orbital characteristics | |
0.37 (± 0.007)[1] AU | |
Eccentricity | 0.833 (± 0.013)[1] |
69.7546 (± 0.0007)[1] d | |
Inclination | 88.95+0.14 −0.17[1] |
Star | Kepler-419 (KOI-1474) |
Physical characteristics | |
0.96 (± 0.12)[1] RJ | |
Mass | 2.5 (± 0.3)[1] MJ |
Temperature | 505 K (232 °C; 449 °F) |
Kepler-419b (also known by its Kepler Object of Interest designation KOI-1474.01) is a hot Jupiter exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-419, the outermost of two such planets discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. It is located about 3,400 light-years (1040 parsecs from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.