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WASP-20
Sign in to saveWASP-20, also known as CD-24 102, is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation Cetus, located at a distance of about from the Sun. The primary star is an F-type main sequence star and hosts one confirmed exoplanet, WASP-20b.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- *
- Distance
- 940 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.000004172895537557508
- Coordinates
- RA 5.1606° · Dec -23.9357°
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 210
- Radius
- 1.459
- Mass
- 0.313
- Orbital period
- 4.8996285
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- effective temperature
- 5950
- apparent magnitude
- 10.765
- surface gravity
- 21400
- radial velocity
- -0.24
- catalog code
- TYC 6413-439-1
- epoch
- J2000.0
- declination component of proper motion
- -14.739
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 1.352
- declination
- -23.93572300256
- right ascension
- 5.16056268042
- parallax
- 2.413
- metallicity
- 0.07
- age estimated by a dating method
- 7
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.06003
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Stellar properties
- Planetary system
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- References
WASP-20, also known as CD-24 102, is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation Cetus, located at a distance of about from the Sun. The primary star is an F-type main sequence star and hosts one confirmed exoplanet, WASP-20b.
== Stellar properties == WASP-20 is a star of spectral type F9, aged 3.6 billion years. Its mass is for a radius of , or a density of .
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