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Kepler 20d

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Discovery date
  
20 December 2011

Discoverer(s)
  
Kepler team

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Discovery status
  
Conference announcement

Kepler-20d is an exoplanet orbiting Kepler-20. It has a mass and radius similar to Neptune. Despite being the furthest planet from the star, it has an orbit similar to Mercury, meaning that it is a Hot Neptune. Along with the other four planets in the system, Kepler-20d was announced on December 20, 2011.

References

Kepler-20d Wikipedia