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Sissi
Sign in to saveHAT-P-14b, officially named Sissi and also known as WASP-27b, is an extrasolar planet located approximately away in the constellation of Hercules, orbiting the 10th magnitude F-type main-sequence star HAT-P-14. This planet was discovered in 2010 by the HATNet Project using the transit method. It was independently detected by the SuperWASP project.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 733 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 260.1162° · Dec 38.2422°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Empress Elisabeth of Austria
- Constellation
- Hercules
- Radius
- 1.01
- Mass
- 2.444
- Orbital period
- 4.627686
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison HAT-P-14 b.png
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- catalog code
- TIC 101721385b
- Commons category
- HAT-P-14 b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2010-05-00
- right ascension
- 260.11615957563820
- declination
- 38.24219712877277
- epoch
- J2000.0
- name
- Sissi
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.115
- argument of periapsis
- 99
- discovery method
- transit method
- angular distance
- 0.00029
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0606
- orbital inclination
- 84.1167
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 2.241
- declination component of proper motion
- -6.714
- parallax
- 4.4623
- named by
- International Astronomical Union
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Host star
- History
- Orbit
- References
- External links
HAT-P-14b, officially named Sissi and also known as WASP-27b, is an extrasolar planet located approximately away in the constellation of Hercules, orbiting the 10th magnitude F-type main-sequence star HAT-P-14. This planet was discovered in 2010 by the HATNet Project using the transit method. It was independently detected by the SuperWASP project.
==Host star== The host star is a main-sequence star with the spectral classification F5V and apparent magnitude 9.98, well below the naked-eye visibility limit. It has a mass of , a radius of , and a surface temperature of . The star HAT-P-14 is named Franz.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sissi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.