- weight
- 17.60 g
- sun
- about the same
- sky
- amber-orange
Illustration computed from this world’s measured and derived values, not a photograph.
Kepler-62 f
Kepler-62 f is a confirmed rocky exoplanet 981 ly from Earth in the constellation Lyra, discovered in 2013 by Kepler.
Transit: spotted by the tiny, repeating dip in its star’s light each time the planet crosses in front of it.
Standing on Kepler-62 f, you would weigh about 1660% more than you do on Earth. Its orange dwarf looks about the same size as ours, bathing the surface in amber-orange light. A year passes in just 267 days, and it sits squarely in the habitable zone, among the more Earth-like worlds known.
How closely this world matches Earth in size and warmth, from 0 to 1 (Earth = 1.0). Computed by gravityfinder. See every world ranked →
What these mean: surface gravity · tidal locking · equilibrium temperature · Earth similarity · habitable zone
If your children grew up herea playful thought experiment
Beyond about four times Earth's gravity, a growing child's skeleton could not carry its own weight. A human body simply could not develop here, even sheltered indoors. The shape below is only where the trend points before biology gives out: short, and impossibly dense.
- Bones
- Thick and dense
- More weight to bear forces the skeleton to grow denser and stronger all through childhood.
- Heart
- Large and powerful
- Pushing blood upward against stronger gravity demands a bigger, harder-working heart.
A playful thought experiment from this world’s gravity, not a prediction about any real person. No human has ever grown up off Earth, so no one truly knows; the direction (taller in low gravity, shorter and stockier in high) follows how growing bodies respond to weight.
Hear how a voice sounds herea computed acoustic demo
Your voice would sound deeper and fuller.
Assuming Earth-like air at this world's temperature of about -65°C (-85°F), sound would travel roughly 15% slower than on Earth, so your voice would sound deeper and fuller. The real atmosphere is unknown, so this is a best guess.
A real voice sample, pitch-shifted (tempo held constant) to suggest the acoustics: a playful approximation, not a precise simulation. Voice: Lingua Libre / Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- !Cold at about -65°C (-85°F), survivable only fully suited and heated.
- !Gravity is 17.6 times Earth's, near the limit at which a person can stand or walk at all.
- It orbits within the habitable zone, where a world could in principle hold liquid water.
A playful read of Kepler-62 f’s measured and computed values, not a real advisory.
How long to get there · 981 ly away
Zoom out: star → system → (soon) galaxy arm, host black hole, and a real image of the host galaxy.
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What is the gravity on Kepler-62 f?
Kepler-62 f's surface gravity is about 18 times Earth's.
How much would you weigh on Kepler-62 f?
Someone who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh about 2,641 pounds on Kepler-62 f.
How far is Kepler-62 f from Earth?
Kepler-62 f lies about 981 light-years from Earth.
How long would it take to get to Kepler-62 f?
At the speed of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest craft ever built, the journey would take about 1.5 million years.
How hot is Kepler-62 f?
Kepler-62 f's equilibrium temperature, the balance it reaches from its star's light alone before any greenhouse warming, is about -65°C (-85°F).
Is Kepler-62 f habitable?
Kepler-62 f orbits inside its star's habitable zone, the range of distances where liquid water could be stable, and its Earth-similarity index is 0.61. That makes it worth studying, but it is not evidence of life: we have no measurement of its atmosphere, water, or surface.
How long is a year on Kepler-62 f?
Kepler-62 f completes one orbit of its star in 267 days.
Illustration generated from Kepler-62 f's confirmed parameters, not a photograph.