Bocaprins
Sign in to saveAlso known as WASP-39b, WASP-39 b, TOI-5675.01, TIC 181949561b
WASP-39b, officially named Bocaprins, is a hot Jupiter extrasolar planet discovered in February 2011 by the WASP project, notable for containing a substantial amount of water in its atmosphere. In addition Bocaprins was the first exoplanet found to contain carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, and likewise for sulfur dioxide.
Key facts
- Planet.name
- WASP-39b / Bocaprins
- Planet.image
- Wasp-39b and its parent star (artist’s impression).jpg
- Planet.caption
- Exoplanet WASP-39b artist's concept
- Planet.discovery_site
- WASP
- Planet.discovered
- 2011
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.alt_names
- Bocaprins
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.048
- Planet.star
- WASP-39
- Planet.mean_radius
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Parent body
- Malmok
- Radius
- 1.27
- Mass
- 0.28
- Orbital period
- 4.05528043
- Image
- Wasp-39b and its parent star (artist’s impression).jpg
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- right ascension
- 217.32672990246706
- declination
- -3.44450084614222
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 87.83
- name
- Bocaprins
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-07-00
- discovery method
- transit method
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.048
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -19.053
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.345
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0486
- Commons category
- WASP-39 b
- parallax
- 4.6448
- argument of periapsis
- 0
- catalog code
- TIC 181949561b
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Atmospheric composition
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
WASP-39b, officially named Bocaprins, is a hot Jupiter extrasolar planet discovered in February 2011 by the WASP project, notable for containing a substantial amount of water in its atmosphere. In addition Bocaprins was the first exoplanet found to contain carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, and likewise for sulfur dioxide.
Bocaprins orbits the star WASP-39 in the constellation Virgo, about 700 light-years from Earth. As part of the NameExoWorlds campaigns at the 100th anniversary of the IAU, the planet was named Bocaprins, after the beach in the Arikok National Park of Aruba.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bocaprins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.