Kepler-25b
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Kepler-25b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Kepler-25, located in the constellation Lyra. The planet was first detected as a candidate extrasolar planet by the Kepler space telescope in 2011. It was confirmed, in 2012, by Jason Steffen and collaborators using transit-timing variations obtained by the Kepler Space Telescope.
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- Constellation
- Lyra
- Parent body
- Kepler-25
- Diameter
- 34000
- Radius
- 0.24124
- Mass
- 0.034013
- Orbital period
- 6.238534771
- Image
- Kepler-25 b.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-00-00
- catalog code
- Kepler-25b
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 286.63839305154250
- declination
- 39.48787721375056
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.06944
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.455
- declination component of proper motion
- 6.169
- parallax
- 4.0822
- orbital inclination
- 92.827
- M sin i
- 0.033971
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Kepler-25b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star Kepler-25, located in the constellation Lyra. The planet was first detected as a candidate extrasolar planet by the Kepler space telescope in 2011. It was confirmed, in 2012, by Jason Steffen and collaborators using transit-timing variations obtained by the Kepler Space Telescope.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-25b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.