CoRoT-8b
CoRoT-8b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010.
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.063 AU (9,400,000 km)[1] | |
| Eccentricity | 0 |
| 6.21229 d | |
| Inclination | 88.4 |
| Star | COROT-8 |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 0.5692 RJ |
| Mass | 0.2158MJ |
| Temperature | 783 K[2] |
It is an hot Neptune-sized planet orbiting a K1V star with Te = 5080K, M = 0.88M☉, R = 0.77R☉, above solar metallicity. It has an estimated age below 3.0 Gyr.
References
- "Notes on CoRoT-8 b". Retrieved February 25, 2019.
- "COROT-8 Planets in the system". Retrieved February 25, 2019.
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