:INFO
Gas giant around Kepler-434
It is 1.13 times Jupiter's radius, closest in size to Jupiter, and 909.0 times Earth's mass, at 2.40 g/cm3, less dense than Earth. A year there lasts 12.87 days, on an orbit 3 times closer to its star than Mercury is to the Sun. Its equilibrium temperature is 1000 K, hot enough to melt lead. The host star Kepler-434 runs at 5977 K with 1.20 times the Sun's mass.

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[icon:TARGET] Radius | 12.67 Earth radii
[icon:CHART] Mass | 909.0 Earth masses
[icon:FIRE] Equilibrium temperature | 1000 K (measured)
[icon:CLOCK] One year | 12.87 days
[icon:BOLT] Orbit radius | 0.1143 AU
[icon:STAR] Host star | Kepler-434 at 5977 K
[icon:USERS] Distance | 3987 light-years
[icon:TRENDING_DOWN] Starlight blocked | 0.707% at each transit

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What a crossing measures
How deep the star dims fixes the planet's size relative to it.

:NOTE
Found by Kepler in 2015. Kepler stared at one patch of sky for four years, which is why so many of its planets have short periods: a planet only counts once you have seen it cross several times.

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Two independent measurements sit behind this page: a dip in starlight for the size, and something else entirely for the mass. Together they make a density.

:LINK
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/Kepler-434%20b
NASA Exoplanet Archive: every published measurement of this planet