COROT-16b
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CoRoT-16b is a transiting exoplanet orbiting the G or K type main sequence star CoRoT-16 2,433 light years away in the southern constellation Scutum. The planet was discovered in June 2011 by the French-led CoRoT mission. CoRoT-16b was detected using the transit method, which measures the brightness changes during an eclipse. However, this planet has an eccentric orbit, which is unusual due to CoRoT-16b's proximity to its parent star and the age.
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- Radius
- 1.17
- Mass
- 0.535
- Orbital period
- 5.35227
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- orbital eccentricity
- 0.37
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-05-00
- catalog code
- TIC 218299481b
- right ascension
- 278.52466177225460
- orbital inclination
- 85.01
- declination
- -6.00256799063806
- argument of periapsis
- 168.41
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0618
- angular distance
- 0.000074
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.937
- declination component of proper motion
- -8.043
- parallax
- 1.3406
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CoRoT-16b is a transiting exoplanet orbiting the G or K type main sequence star CoRoT-16 2,433 light years away in the southern constellation Scutum. The planet was discovered in June 2011 by the French-led CoRoT mission. CoRoT-16b was detected using the transit method, which measures the brightness changes during an eclipse. However, this planet has an eccentric orbit, which is unusual due to CoRoT-16b's proximity to its parent star and the age.
Due to its orbit, CoRoT-16b is classified as a "hot Jupiter". It only takes about 5 days to orbit CoRoT-16, but has an unusually eccentric orbit. CoRoT-16b has 52.9% the mass of Jupiter, but is 17% larger than the latter. Due to the low mass and high radius, CoRoT-16b has 41% the density of water; the orbit gives it an equilibrium temperature of 1,086 K. However, this is only an estimate due to the eccentricity of CoRoT-16b.