COROT-8b
Sign in to saveCoRoT-8b is a transiting exoplanet orbiting the K-type main sequence star CoRoT-8 1,050 light years away in the equatorial constellation Aquila. The planet was discovered in April 2010 by the CoRoT telescope.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- star
- Constellation
- Aquila
- Parent body
- CoRoT-8
- Radius
- 0.619
- Mass
- 0.218
- Orbital period
- 6.212445
- Image
- CoRoT-8b (comparision).png
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- Commons category
- CoRoT-8 b
- right ascension
- 291.58851111925867
- declination
- 1.42643838242500
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 2010-09-00
- orbital inclination
- 88.18
- discovery method
- transit method
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0636
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.19
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 13.577
- declination component of proper motion
- -32.783
- parallax
- 3.0766
- catalog code
- TIC 391880567b
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CoRoT-8b is a transiting exoplanet orbiting the K-type main sequence star CoRoT-8 1,050 light years away in the equatorial constellation Aquila. The planet was discovered in April 2010 by the CoRoT telescope.
==Discovery== This planet was discovered using the transit method, which detects planet via eclipses. The discovery paper's abstract states that CoRoT-8b is extremely dense compared to Saturn.
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