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WASP-96b
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WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 1,141 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 1.0464° · Dec -47.3606°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.extrasolarplanet
- yes
- Planet.name
- WASP-96b
- Planet.image
- File:Exoplanet WASP-96 b (NIRISS Transit Light Curve) (weic2206b).jpeg
- Planet.caption
- Light curve of star WASP-96 during transit of WASP-96b, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.discoverer
- Hellier et al. (WASP)
- Planet.discovered
- October 2013
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.eccentricity
- <0.11
- Planet.single_temperature
- 1285 K
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Parent body
- WASP-96
- Radius
- 1.2
- Mass
- 0.48
- Orbital period
- 3.42525674
- Image
- Exoplanet WASP-96 b (NIRISS Transit Light Curve).png
Show 14 more facts
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0453
- declination
- -47.36064525864194
- catalog code
- TIC 160148385b
- right ascension
- 1.04640697216000
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 2014-05-00
- orbital inclination
- 85.6
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.11
- discovery method
- transit method
- temperature
- 1285.0
- Commons category
- WASP-96 b
- declination component of proper motion
- 2.334
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 25.582
- parallax
- 2.8088
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Atmosphere
- See also
- References
- External links
WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
WASP-96b orbits its Sun-like star WASP-96 every 3.4 Earth days at a distance just one-ninth of the distance between Mercury and the Sun.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WASP-96b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.