Discovery | |
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Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
Transit | |
Orbital characteristics | |
0.092 AU (13,800,000 km) [1] | |
Eccentricity | 0.077 |
9.75598 d | |
Inclination | 89.749 |
Star | CoRoT-22 |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 0.4354 RJ |
Mass | 0.06 MJ |
Temperature | 885 K [2] |
CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet smaller than Uranus found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014. [3]
CoRoT-22b orbits CoRoT-22 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a G0IV star with Te = 5939K, M = 1.099 M☉, R = 1.136 R☉, and above-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.
Discovery | |
---|---|
Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
Transit | |
Orbital characteristics | |
0.092 AU (13,800,000 km) [1] | |
Eccentricity | 0.077 |
9.75598 d | |
Inclination | 89.749 |
Star | CoRoT-22 |
Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 0.4354 RJ |
Mass | 0.06 MJ |
Temperature | 885 K [2] |
CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet smaller than Uranus found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014. [3]
CoRoT-22b orbits CoRoT-22 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a G0IV star with Te = 5939K, M = 1.099 M☉, R = 1.136 R☉, and above-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.