Kepler-36b
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Kepler-36b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-36. This planet has the closest conjunction to Kepler-36c every 97 days. Its density is similar to that of iron.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 1,760 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 291.2502° · Dec 49.2318°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
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- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- catalog code
- Kepler-36b
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2012-08-00
- right ascension
- 291.25017952294830
- declination
- 49.23184202495279
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.039
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 0.970
- declination component of proper motion
- -8.073
- parallax
- 1.8654
- orbital inclination
- 90.01
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.1153
- M sin i
- 1.08548813
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Kepler-36b is an exoplanet orbiting the star Kepler-36. This planet has the closest conjunction to Kepler-36c every 97 days. Its density is similar to that of iron.
During their closest approach, Kepler-36b and Kepler-36c are located only 0.013 AU (about 1,900,000 km) from each other, which causes extreme transit-timing variations for both planets. Transit-timing variations caused by Kepler-36c are strong enough to put narrow constraints on Kepler-36b's mass. The close proximity of the planet to its host star combined with its relatively low mass caused the planet to lose all or most of its primordial hydrogen/helium envelope.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-36b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.