HAT-P-6 b
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HAT-P-6b is a transiting extrasolar planet discovered by Noyes et al. on October 15, 2007. It is located approximately 910 light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda, orbiting the star HAT-P-6. This hot Jupiter planet orbits with a semi-major axis of about 0.05 AU, and takes 92 hours, 28 minutes, 17 seconds to orbit the star. It has true mass of 5.7% greater than Jupiter and a radius 33% greater than Jupiter, corresponding to a density of 0.583 g/cm3, which is less than water.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 895 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 354.7742° · Dec 42.4660°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.extrasolarplanet
- yes
- Planet.name
- HAT-P-6b / Nachtwacht
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison HAT-P-6 b.png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of HAT-P-6b with Jupiter.
- Planet.discoverer
- Noyes et al.
- Planet.discovered
- October 15, 2007
- Planet.discovery_method
- transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.semimajor
- AU
- Planet.inclination
- °
- Planet.period
- d
- Planet.star
- HAT-P-6
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.33 ± 0.06
via Wikipedia infobox
Exoplanet data
- Host star
- HAT-P-6
- Discovered
- 2007
- Discovered by
- HATNet
- Orbital period
- 3.85 days
- Radius
- 16.59 × Earth
- Mass
- 419.54 × Earth
- Equilibrium temp
- 1675 K
- Distance
- 275.36 pc
via NASA Exoplanet Archive
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Encyclopedic overview
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HAT-P-6b is a transiting extrasolar planet discovered by Noyes et al. on October 15, 2007. It is located approximately 910 light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda, orbiting the star HAT-P-6. This hot Jupiter planet orbits with a semi-major axis of about 0.05 AU, and takes 92 hours, 28 minutes, 17 seconds to orbit the star. It has true mass of 5.7% greater than Jupiter and a radius 33% greater than Jupiter, corresponding to a density of 0.583 g/cm3, which is less than water.
The planet HAT-P-6b is named Nachtwacht. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by the Netherlands, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU, after Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “HAT-P-6 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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