CoRoT-12 b
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 3,731 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 100.7657° · Dec -1.2964°
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Exoplanet data
- Host star
- CoRoT-12
- Discovered
- 2010
- Discovered by
- CoRoT
- Orbital period
- 2.83 days
- Radius
- 16.14 × Earth
- Mass
- 291.44 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 1442 K
- Distance
- 1126.37 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Monoceros
- Radius
- 1.35
- Mass
- 0.887
- Orbital period
- 2.828041
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- Commons category
- CoRoT-12 b
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0394
- catalog code
- TIC 280210963b
- right ascension
- 100.76567983114250
- declination
- -1.29642877731556
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 2010-09-00
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.07
- argument of periapsis
- 105
- orbital inclination
- 85.79
- discovery method
- transit method
- angular distance
- 0.000035
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 1.694
- declination component of proper motion
- -3.475
- parallax
- 0.8612
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CoRoT-12b is a transiting Hot Jupiter-sized exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010.
==Host star== CoRoT-12b orbits CoRoT-12 in the constellation of Monoceros. It is a G2V star with an effective temperature of , a mass of 1.078 , a radius of 1.116 , and an above-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 3.2 and 9.4 Gyr.
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