Kepler-36b
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Kepler-36b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-36. This planet has the closest conjunction to Kepler-36c every 97 days. Its density is similar to that of iron.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 1,760 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 291.2502° · Dec 49.2318°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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Kepler-36b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-36. This planet has the closest conjunction to Kepler-36c every 97 days. Its density is similar to that of iron.
During their closest approach, Kepler-36b and Kepler-36c are located only 0.013 AU (about 1,900,000 km) from each other, which causes extreme transit-timing variations for both planets. Transit-timing variations caused by Kepler-36c are strong enough to put narrow constraints on Kepler-36b's mass. The close proximity of the planet to its host star combined with its relatively low mass caused the planet to lose all or most of its primordial hydrogen/helium envelope.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-36b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.