Kepler-41b
Sign in to saveKepler-41b, formerly known as KOI-196b, is a planet in the orbit of star Kepler-41. It is a hot Jupiter with about the density of water. It reflects about a third of the starlight it receives. The brightest spot in the planetary atmosphere is shifted westward from the substellar point, indicating strong winds.
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Vinony's link graph records 309 inbound references to Kepler-41b, and connects out to day, mass and temperature.
It is catalogued under topics including Cygnus (constellation), Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope and Exoplanets discovered in 2011.
Vinony links it to 6 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 3,513 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 294.5132° · Dec 45.9816°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
Show 15 more facts
- catalog code
- Kepler-41b
- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-12-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 294.51322764945246
- declination
- 45.98163236595445
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.21
- angular distance
- 0.00004
- temperature
- 1790.0
- orbital inclination
- 88.3
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.03101
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 3.037
- declination component of proper motion
- 2.999
- parallax
- 0.8864
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Kepler-41b, formerly known as KOI-196b, is a planet in the orbit of star Kepler-41. It is a hot Jupiter with about the density of water. It reflects about a third of the starlight it receives. The brightest spot in the planetary atmosphere is shifted westward from the substellar point, indicating strong winds.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-41b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.