Moldoveanu
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XO-1 is a magnitude 11 G-type main-sequence star located approximately 530 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis. XO-1 has a mass and radius similar to the Sun. In 2006 the extrasolar planet XO-1b was discovered orbiting XO-1 by the transit method using the XO Telescope.
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Corona Borealis
- Child body
- XO-1b
- Distance from Earth
- 200
- Radius
- 0.928
- Mass
- 1
- Image
- XO-1b.jpg
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- catalog code
- TIC 236312126
- different from
- OLPC XO-1
- effective temperature
- 5731
- parallax
- 6.1489
- apparent magnitude
- 11.003223
- radial velocity
- 0.1
- epoch
- J2000.0
- spectral class
- G1V
- metallicity
- -0.08
- stellar rotational velocity
- 1.7
- surface gravity
- 32000
- name
- Moldoveanu
- luminosity
- 0.8139595
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -17.349
- declination component of proper motion
- 14.78
- right ascension
- 240.54935930108
- declination
- 28.16956116707
- age estimated by a dating method
- 4.5
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XO-1 is a magnitude 11 G-type main-sequence star located approximately 530 light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis. XO-1 has a mass and radius similar to the Sun. In 2006 the extrasolar planet XO-1b was discovered orbiting XO-1 by the transit method using the XO Telescope.
The star XO-1 is named Moldoveanu. The name was selected in the NameExoWorlds campaign by Romania, during the 100th anniversary of the IAU. Moldoveanu is the highest peak in Romania.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moldoveanu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.