Kepler-20c | |
Discoverer: | Kepler team |
Discovered: | 20 December 2011 |
Discovery Method: | Transit (Kepler Mission) |
Apsis: | astron |
Semimajor: | 0.093AU |
Eccentricity: | <0.40 |
Period: | d |
Star: | Kepler-20 (KOI-070) |
Density: | g cm−3 |
Single Temperature: | 713 |
Kepler-20c is an exoplanet orbiting Kepler-20. It has a mass similar to Neptune but is slightly smaller. Despite being the third-closest planet to Kepler-20, it is still close to the star, meaning that it is a hot Neptune. Along with the other four planets in the system, Kepler-20c was announced on 20 December 2011.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120503214356/http://kepler.nasa.gov/Mission/discoveries/kepler20c/