Kepler-10c, which orbits a star 560 light-years away in the constellation Draco, isn't likely to harbour life. Kepler-10c was originally spotted by NASA's Kepler spacecraft. With the radius of 2.35, it is currently the largest known planet likely to have a predominantly rocky composition. However, Kepler can't tell whether a planet is rocky or gassy. Kepler-10c lies 560 light-years from Earth in the constellation Draco, where it orbits Kepler-10 with a year of 45 days. Kepler-10c, a 2.2-Earth radius transiting planet in a multiple system 2011 FRESSIN F., TORRES G. et al. The massive world is 560 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Draco. Its surface gravity would be over three times Earth’s (I’d weigh more than 500 pounds on Kepler-10c), for starters. With an angular diameter similar to our Moon, that would feature prominently in its night sky. Consider, for instance, Kepler 10c – a rocky Super Earth. Kepler-10c has a diameter of about 18,000 miles, 2.3 times as large as Earth, researchers said. Kepler finds planets using the transit method, looking for a star that dims when a planet passes in front of it. So, I can't see any other threads about this, only in the archived gamma discussion forum from 2014. In that thread, Michael Brookes confirmed that the giant planet Kepler 10c was in the game, and that the system name was Kepler-10 in game. Kepler-10c does not have an entry in the catalogue of orbital obliquity measurements. It orbits a sun-like star once every 45 days. Stenzel Collection of planets discovered by Kepler Kepler-10c also orbits close to its star — so close that it completes an orbit in only 45 days. Now, in May 2011, the Kepler team is announcing another member of the Kepler-10 family, called Kepler-10c (larger foreground object). Under the crushing pressure of gravity generated by all of Kepler 10c’s mass, most of whatever water it has may be bound up in minerals, or squeezed … ApJ, 789, 154 paper arxiv Understanding the Mass-Radius Relation for Sub-Neptunes: Radius as a Proxy for Composition 2014 LOPEZ E. & FORTNEY J. ApJ, 792, 1 paper arxiv … It is the first confirmed Terrestrial planet made by the Kepler Mission, run by NASA. Both of these methods proved powerful to validate Kepler planets that are too small and far away for ground-based telescopes to confirm. The planet after Kepler-10b is Kepler-10c. How could such a planet form? ApJ. At 6.55 M(Earth) and 2.68 R(Earth), it's surface gravity would be 0.91g. Kepler-10c has not been analysed as part of the Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets project. Dubbed Kepler-10c, this planet is described as a “scorched, molten Earth.” 2.2 times the radius of Earth, Kepler-10c orbits its star every 45 days. Kepler-10c inhabits a constellation called Draco, which is about 560 light-years from Earth. Is Jupiter the biggest planet in the universe? Imagine the exercise you would get just walking around: myself, I would be lugging around almost 700 pounds! arxiv. Kepler's first rocky planet: Kepler-10b Photo credit: David Aguilar/ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . Such a planet should impossible, yet it seems to exist. The planet orbits a star that is about 560 light years away from us. "I wouldn't want to be a giraffe on this planet," said Latham, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Because Kepler-10c blocks some of its sun's light when it moves past it. Description Planet Kepler 10c has 10 times earths gravity per science news July 2014 pg 20. The album goes by the name of “Gravity” and it certainly is heavy. In May 2014, previously discovered Kepler-10c was determined to have the mass comparable to Neptune (17 Earth masses). 17 earth masses and 2.3 earth radii. (A companion planet, called Kepler-10b, orbits even closer and faster. All planets listed are larger than two times the size of the largest planet in the Solar System, Jupiter. Download the paper, Kepler's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b [3.96 MB PDF] Planet Kepler-10b Transiting Its Host Star (Artist's Depiction) Click image for full-resolution. However, after going to visit the system: 10c cannot be said to accurately be in the game. "Gravity at the surface is nearly three times that of Earth. That planet was first identified by Kepler, and later validated using a combination of Spitzer and a computer simulation technique called "Blender." The album brings a total of 10 tracks across at 30+ minute spread that is sure to leave some destruction in its wake. The Exoplanet Handbook 2011 Michael Perryman Content Content and Chapter 5. Kepler-10c has not been analysed as part of the Homogeneous Studies of Transiting Extrasolar Planets project. The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: A hot rocky world and a solid Neptune-mass planet 2014 DUMUSQUE X., BONOMO A., HAYWOOD R., MALAVOLTA L., SEGRANSAN D. etb al. It's bigger than Kepler-10b with a radius of 2.2 times that of Earth's, and it orbits the star every 45 days. Page generated on 2020/11/02 John Southworth (Keele University, UK) Heavy like being strapped to the surface of a distant planet like Kepler-10c. NASA’s amazing Kepler planet-searching spacecraft has made a significant new discovery. Kepler-10b orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the spacecraft is monitoring between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra. If such a planet harboured an irregular satellite it could have a maximum angular diameter of 12 mrad. Kepler- 10c was originally spotted by Nasa's Kepler spacecraft, which finds planets using the transit method, looking for a star that dims when a planet passes in front of it. Other examples would be Gliese 1214b (our best candidate so far for a "waterworld"/ low density). Nasa's Kepler space telescope, from which the planet gets its name, is good at noticing these things. This proximity to its sun means the planet’s climate also should be brutally hot. Flying above the surface of the Exoplanet Kepler-452b, most probably a super-Earth. Both planets would be blistering hot worlds. Even Kepler 10c is only estimated to be 2.3 Earth Radii so this gives a surface gravity of 3.2g. It is a planet that weighs 17 times as much as Earth and is more than twice as large in size. Kepler-10b was the first rocky planet that NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope found, using transit photometry, and it orbits a Sun-like star, albeit one much older than the Sun. Kepler-10b is the first confirmed terrestrial planet to have been discovered outside the Solar System by the Kepler Space Telescope. A quick high school physics calculation shows that the surface gravity of Kepler 10c would be about 3.2 times what we're used to. With the mass of Neptune squeezed into a ball only about 2.4 times as wide as our planet, gravity on Kepler-10c is three times stronger than Earth's, astronomer David Latham reported. Planet Kepler-10b is an inhospitable world but it is one of the smallest confirmed exoplanets yet found and may be the most Earth-like world discovered so far. Artists impression based of the known facts (source: Wikipedia). Kepler-10c orbits its sun-like star every 45 days which means it's too hot to sustain life as we know it, but it 's still fascinating. All that mass would give the exoplanet extreme gravity, the researchers note. Discovered after several months of data collection during the course of the NASA-directed Kepler Mission, which aims to discover Earth-like planets crossing in front of their host stars, the planet's discovery was announced on January 10, 2011. It‘s job is to track down any Earth -like Planets orbiting other Stars. By measuring the amount of dimming, astronomers can calculate the planet's physical size or diameter. Kepler-10c. This planet is about 2.3 times the size of Earth, which in and of itself isn’t that big—its size places it in the category scientists have dubbed “mini-Neptunes.” However, the planet has about 17 times as much mass as Earth, which is far more than anyone expected. Planet formation theorists are challenged to explain how such a massive world could have formed. Take Kepler-10c for instance. NASA/W. Page generated on 2017/08/07 John Southworth (Keele University, UK) Kepler-10c is a big, rocky planet that may harbor life—but what's most interesting is how big and rocky it is, Space.com reports. Kepler-10c was discovered in 2011 by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Kepler-10b is an Extrasolar planet in the Kepler-10 system. It … The beast is currently available for streaming and purchase at all major online music platforms. Kepler-10c does not have an entry in the catalogue of Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements. It is too close to the parent star and the surface is thoroughly roasted.