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HAT-P-11b (or Kepler-3b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HAT-P-11. It was discovered by the HATNet Project team in 2009 using the transit method, and submitted for publication on 2 January 2009.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
Pl
Distance
123 light-years
Coordinates
RA 297.7094° · Dec 48.0809°
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via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg

Key facts

Planet.apsis
astron
Planet.name
HAT-P-11b / Kepler-3b
Planet.image
File:Neptune's (updated color) compared to Exoplanet HAT-P-11b.png
Planet.caption
Size comparison of Neptune with HAT-P-11b (gray).
Planet.discoverer
Bakos et al.
Planet.discovery_site
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Planet.discovered
2 January 2009
Planet.discovery_method
Transit (HATNet)
Planet.aphelion
AU
Planet.perihelion
AU
Planet.semimajor
AU
Planet.period
d
Planet.star
HAT-P-11
Planet.surface_grav
1.20 g

via Wikipedia infobox

Exoplanet data

Host star
HAT-P-11
Discovered
2008
Discovered by
HATNet
Orbital period
4.89 days
Radius
4.36 × Earth
Mass
25 × Earth
Equilibrium temp
838 K
Distance
37.76 pc

via NASA Exoplanet Archive

Wikidata facts

Instance of
star
Constellation
Cygnus
Parent body
HAT-P-11
Radius
0.389
Mass
0.0736
Orbital period
4.887802443
Image
Exoplanet Comparison HAT-P-11 b.png
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catalog code
TIC 28230919b
Commons category
HAT-P-11 b
discovery method
transit method
time of discovery or invention
2010-02-00
discoverer or inventor
Kepler Space Telescope
right ascension
297.70936440116367
declination
48.08086037899389
epoch
J2000.0
argument of periapsis
198
orbital inclination
89.05
M sin i
23.4
angular distance
0.001395
temperature
750.0
right ascension component of proper motion
125.984
declination component of proper motion
232.988
orbital eccentricity
0.232
semi-major axis of an orbit
0.053
parallax
26.4508
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Encyclopedic overview

5 sections
Contents
  • Discovery
  • Characteristics
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

HAT-P-11b (or Kepler-3b) is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HAT-P-11. It was discovered by the HATNet Project team in 2009 using the transit method, and submitted for publication on 2 January 2009.

This planet is located approximately distant from Earth.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HAT-P-11 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.