Lupus-TR-3b
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Lupus-TR-3b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Lupus-TR-3 (a K-type main sequence star approximately 8,950 light-years away in the constellation Lupus). The planet was discovered in 2007 by personnel from the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian observing at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, by the transit method.
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Lupus
- Parent body
- Lupus-TR-3
- Radius
- 0.89
- Mass
- 0.81
- Orbital period
- 3.91405
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison Lupus-TR-3 b.png
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2008-03-00
- Commons category
- Lupus-TR-3 b
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -8
- declination component of proper motion
- -24
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.0
- orbital inclination
- 88.3
- discovery method
- transit method
- right ascension
- 232.5774696
- declination
- -42.9799461
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0464
- catalog code
- TIC 153091721b
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Lupus-TR-3b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Lupus-TR-3 (a K-type main sequence star approximately 8,950 light-years away in the constellation Lupus). The planet was discovered in 2007 by personnel from the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian observing at the Siding Spring Observatory in Australia, by the transit method.
The planet has four-fifths the mass of Jupiter, nine-tenths the radius, and has density of 1.4 g/cm3. This planet is a typical “Hot Jupiter” as it orbits at 0.0464 AU distance from the star, taking 3.9 days to orbit. It is currently the faintest ground-based detection of a transiting planet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lupus-TR-3b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.