Boinayel
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WASP-6b, also named Boinayel, is an exoplanet approximately 650 light years away in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered in 2008, by the WASP survey, by astronomical transit across its parent star WASP-6. This planet orbits at only 4% of the Earth-Sun distance. The planet has a mass half that of Jupiter, but its insolation has forced a thermal expansion of its radius to greater than that of Jupiter. Thus, this planet is an inflated hot Jupiter. Starspots on the host star WASP-6 helped to refine the measurements of the mass and the radius of the planet.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 651 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 348.1572° · Dec -22.6740°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- WASP-6b / Boinayel
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison WASP-6 b.png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of WASP-6b with Jupiter.
- Planet.discoverer
- Gillon et al. (SuperWASP)
- Planet.discovery_site
- SAAO
- Planet.discovered
- April 1, 2008
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.070
- Planet.star
- WASP-6
- Planet.surface_grav
- 0.82 g
- Planet.single_temperature
- ()
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Vlasina
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Parent body
- Márohu
- Radius
- 1.07
- Mass
- 0.503
- Orbital period
- 3.361006
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison WASP-6 b.png
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- catalog code
- TIC 204376737b
- Commons category
- WASP-6 b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2015-06-00
- right ascension
- 348.15723694067660
- declination
- -22.67396596921222
- epoch
- J2000.0
- name
- Boinayel
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.07
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0421
- argument of periapsis
- 1.7
- orbital inclination
- 88.47
- discovery method
- transit method
- angular distance
- 0.000137
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -23.305
- declination component of proper motion
- -36.895
- parallax
- 5.0446
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Naming
- Orbit
- Atmosphere
- See also
- References
- External links
WASP-6b, also named Boinayel, is an exoplanet approximately 650 light years away in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered in 2008, by the WASP survey, by astronomical transit across its parent star WASP-6. This planet orbits at only 4% of the Earth-Sun distance. The planet has a mass half that of Jupiter, but its insolation has forced a thermal expansion of its radius to greater than that of Jupiter. Thus, this planet is an inflated hot Jupiter. Starspots on the host star WASP-6 helped to refine the measurements of the mass and the radius of the planet.
thumb|center|400px|From top left to lower right: WASP-12b, WASP-6b, [[WASP-31b, WASP-39b, HD 189733b, HAT-P-12b, WASP-17b, WASP-19b, HAT-P-1b and HD 209458b.]]
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boinayel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.