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.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 3,513 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 294.5132° · Dec 45.9816°
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Wikidata facts
- Diameter
- 159000
- Radius
- 0.89
- Mass
- 0.56
- Orbital period
- 1.855557555
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- catalog code
- Kepler-41b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-12-00
- right ascension
- 294.51322764945246
- declination
- 45.98163236595445
- 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==