CoRoT-2 b
Sign in to saveCoRoT-2b (formerly known as CoRoT-Exo-2b) is the second extrasolar planet to be detected by the French-led CoRoT mission, and orbits the star CoRoT-2 at a distance of 700 light years from Earth towards the constellation Aquila. Its discovery was announced on 20 December 2007. After its discovery via the transit method, its mass was confirmed via the radial velocity method.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 696 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 291.7771° · Dec 1.3837°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- CoRoT-2b
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison CoRoT-2 b.png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of CoRoT-2b with Jupiter.
- Planet.discoverer
- CoRoT mission
- Planet.discovery_site
- Earth's orbit
- Planet.discovered
- 2007-12-??, announced 2007-12-20
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit method
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0 (assumed)
- Planet.inclination
- 87.84 ± 0.10
- Planet.star
- CoRoT-2
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.429 ± 0.047
- Planet.mass
- 3.31 ± 0.16
- Planet.albedo
- <0.12
- Planet.single_temperature
- 1537 ± 35 K
via Wikipedia infobox
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- CoRoT-2
- Discovered
- 2008
- Discovered by
- CoRoT
- Orbital period
- 1.74 days
- Radius
- 16.43 × Earth
- Mass
- 1102.82 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 1521 K
- Distance
- 213.28 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Parent body
- COROT-2
- Radius
- 1.465
- Mass
- 3.47
- Orbital period
- 1.7429964
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison CoRoT-2 b.png
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- Commons category
- CoRoT-2 b
- catalog code
- TIC 391958006b
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2008-05-00
- right ascension
- 291.77706034220660
- declination
- 1.38371044366833
- apparent magnitude
- 12.57
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 87.84
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0281
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0143
- angular distance
- 0.000094
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -3.409
- declination component of proper motion
- -10.936
- parallax
- 4.6608
- argument of periapsis
- 102
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Encyclopedic overview
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CoRoT-2b (formerly known as CoRoT-Exo-2b) is the second extrasolar planet to be detected by the French-led CoRoT mission, and orbits the star CoRoT-2 at a distance of 700 light years from Earth towards the constellation Aquila. Its discovery was announced on 20 December 2007. After its discovery via the transit method, its mass was confirmed via the radial velocity method.
== Characteristics == thumb|left|275px|The radial velocity trend of CoRoT-2, caused by the presence of CoRoT-2 b.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CoRoT-2 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.