Kepler-24b
Sign in to savethumb | right | Relative sizes of Earth, Kepler-24b and [[Jupiter]] Kepler-24b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-24, located in the constellation Lyra. It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in January 2012. It orbits its parent star at only 0.08 astronomical units away, and at its distance it completes an orbit once every 8.145 days.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 3,924 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 290.4133° · Dec 38.3437°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Lyra
- Parent body
- Kepler-24
- Diameter
- 54000
- Radius
- 2.348
- Mass
- 11.14
- Orbital period
- 8.14
- Image
- Kepler-24 b.jpg
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- catalog code
- Kepler-24b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-05-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 290.41327431478250
- declination
- 38.34373618535388
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.08
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.227
- declination component of proper motion
- -1.825
- parallax
- 0.8361
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.023
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thumb | right | Relative sizes of Earth, Kepler-24b and [[Jupiter]] Kepler-24b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-24, located in the constellation Lyra. It was discovered by the Kepler telescope in January 2012. It orbits its parent star at only 0.08 astronomical units away, and at its distance it completes an orbit once every 8.145 days.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-24b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.