Exoplanet Candidate HD 137010 b Added To The NASA Exoplanet Archive

We’ve added a planet candidate to the HD 137010 System Overview page to help the community track this object with future follow-up observations. More information about this exciting discovery is in the NASA media release and the discovery paper.

The candidate, located 146 light-years away, was found in archival data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission with a single transit in a 10-hour transit duration. It has an Earth radius and an unknown period that could range between about 300 and 550 days, placing it near the outer edge of the habitable zone of its K star, which is about 70% the size of our Sun.

The Exoplanet Archive includes candidate exoplanets on System Overview pages when they are delivered by missions, such as TESS and Kepler, and we will also occasionally include candidate planets that are of significant interest to the community and public. Although HD 137010 b was assigned a planet letter, its status is currently not confirmed and it does not appear in the Planetary Systems and Planetary Systems Composite Data tables.

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