:INFO Super-earth around KOI-351 It is 1.32 times Earth's radius, closest in size to Earth. A year there lasts 14.45 days. Its equilibrium temperature is 709 K, hot enough to melt lead. The host star KOI-351 runs at 6015 K with 1.12 times the Sun's mass. :JOURNEY KOI-351 from the inside out 1 0.074 AU 2 0.089 AU 3 0.320 AU 4 0.420 AU 5 0.480 AU :STATS [icon:TARGET] Radius | 1.32 Earth radii [icon:FIRE] Equilibrium temperature | 709 K (measured) [icon:CLOCK] One year | 14.45 days [icon:STAR] Host star | KOI-351 at 6015 K [icon:USERS] Distance | 2767 light-years [icon:TRENDING_DOWN] Starlight blocked | 0.009% at each transit :PATH What you get from the shadow The depth of the dip is the ratio of the two discs, so the radius follows. :TIMELINE 🔭🪐📅 2013-01-01 | KOI-351 b, KOI-351 c, KOI-351 d, KOI-351 e, KOI-351 f 2017-01-01 | Kepler-90 i :CHECKLIST Known and unknown, as the archive has it [ ] A size. Yes. [ ] A mass. No. [ ] A density, which decides rock or gas. No. [ ] How far out it orbits. No. [ ] A temperature someone observed rather than calculated. Yes. [ ] An eccentricity, so we know if the orbit is a circle. No. :NOTE Everything known here comes from how much light went missing. That fixes the size and leaves the mass entirely open. :NOTE KOI-351 has 8 known planets. Multi-planet systems are where orbital dynamics can be measured rather than assumed. :NOTE Found by Kepler in 2017. 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. :LINK https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/Kepler-90%20i NASA Exoplanet Archive: source data, including the values not used here