Kepler-32b
Sign in to saveKepler-32b (alt. name KOI 952.01) is an extrasolar planet in orbit around its M-dwarf-type star in the Kepler-32 system, constellation of Cygnus. Discovered by planetary transit methods with the Kepler space telescope in January 2012, it presents a semi-major axis of 0.0519 AU and temperature of 559.9 K. 2.2 Earth-radius, a mass of 4.1 MJ, and an orbital period of 5.9012 days.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 1,053 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 297.8424° · Dec 46.5743°
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- catalog code
- Kepler-32b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-05-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 297.84239257592880
- declination
- 46.57427492087389
- epoch
- J2000.0
- discovery method
- transit method
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.05
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -13.618
- declination component of proper motion
- 19.646
- parallax
- 3.0595
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Kepler-32b (alt. name KOI 952.01) is an extrasolar planet in orbit around its M-dwarf-type star in the Kepler-32 system, constellation of Cygnus. Discovered by planetary transit methods with the Kepler space telescope in January 2012, it presents a semi-major axis of 0.0519 AU and temperature of 559.9 K. 2.2 Earth-radius, a mass of 4.1 MJ, and an orbital period of 5.9012 days.
==See also== List of planets discovered by the Kepler spacecraft
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