KELT-10 b
A confirmed exoplanet orbiting KELT-10.
Compared with Earth
- Size
- About 16 times Earth's width.
- Mass
- About 216 times Earth's mass.
- Temperature
- About 1,104 °C (2,019 °F) from starlight alone, against -18 °C (-1 °F) for Earth measured the same way.
- Starlight
- About 600 times the starlight Earth gets from the Sun.
- Year
- A year here lasts about 4.2 Earth days.
Planet
- Radius
- 15.68 × Earth
- Mass
- 215.8 × Earth
- Density
- 0.308 g/cm³
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,377 K
- Starlight received
- 600 × Earth
- Orbital period
- 4.166 days
- Average distance from its star
- 0.0525 AU
Star
- Host star
- KELT-10
- Spectral class
- G — sun-like
- Surface temperature
- 5,948 K
- Radius
- 1.209 × Sun
- Mass
- 1.112 × Sun
- Age
- 4.5 billion years
System
- Distance from Earth
- 614.5 light-years (188.4 parsecs)
- Stars in system
- 1
- Known planets
- 1
Discovery
- Year
- 2016
- Method
- Transit
- Facility
- KELT-South
Data from the NASA Exoplanet Archive, synced October 14, 2026.