Kepler-56b
Sign in to saveKepler-56b (KOI-1241.02) is a hot Neptune—a class of exoplanets—located roughly away. It is somewhat larger than Neptune and orbits its parent star Kepler-56 and was discovered in 2013 by the Kepler Space Telescope.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 3,033 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 293.7583° · Dec 41.8719°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- Kepler-56
- Diameter
- 66000
- Radius
- 0.581
- Mass
- 0.07
- Orbital period
- 10.5016
- Image
- Kepler-56 System Diagram.jpg
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- time of discovery or invention
- 2013-01-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 293.75833915990495
- declination
- 41.87185881984973
- epoch
- J2000.0
- M sin i
- 0.0944
- discovery method
- transit method
- orbital eccentricity
- 0
- catalog code
- TIC 138430034b
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -6.746
- declination component of proper motion
- -12.025
- parallax
- 1.0673
- argument of periapsis
- -11
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.1028
- orbital inclination
- 83.84
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Planetary orbit
- Other planets in the Kepler-56 system
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Kepler-56b (KOI-1241.02) is a hot Neptune—a class of exoplanets—located roughly away. It is somewhat larger than Neptune and orbits its parent star Kepler-56 and was discovered in 2013 by the Kepler Space Telescope.
==Planetary orbit== Kepler-56b is about away from its host star (about one-tenth of the distance between Earth to the Sun), making it even closer to its parent star than Mercury () and Venus (). It takes 10.5 days for Kepler-56b to complete a full orbit around its star. Further research shows that Kepler-56b's orbit is about 45° misaligned to the host star's equator. Later radial velocity measurements have revealed evidence of a gravitational perturbation from Kepler-56d.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kepler-56b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.