Kepler-15 b
Sign in to savethumb | right | alt=Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet Kepler-9 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter, as reported in the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, 2015 | Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet Kepler-9 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter, as reported in the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, 2015 Kepler-15b is a planet discovered by the Kepler spacecraft. It is a hot Jupiter, with a mass of 0.66 MJ, a radius 0.96 RJ and a period of about 4.94 days.
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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 2,474 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 296.2006° · Dec 49.1401°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Parent body
- Kepler-15
- Radius
- 0.96
- Mass
- 0.66
- Orbital period
- 4.9427809
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison Kepler-9 b.png
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- discovery method
- transit method
- time of discovery or invention
- 2011-11-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Kepler Space Telescope
- right ascension
- 296.20056892473160
- declination
- 49.14008262816417
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital inclination
- 87.44
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.05714
- catalog code
- TIC 27774415b
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.068
- temperature
- 1225.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -2.780
- declination component of proper motion
- -12.122
- parallax
- 1.3238
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- References
thumb | right | alt=Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet Kepler-9 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter, as reported in the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, 2015 | Comparison of best-fit size of the exoplanet Kepler-9 b with the Solar System planet Jupiter, as reported in the Open Exoplanet Catalogue, 2015 Kepler-15b is a planet discovered by the Kepler spacecraft. It is a hot Jupiter, with a mass of 0.66 MJ, a radius 0.96 RJ and a period of about 4.94 days.
==See also== Kepler-15 - the host star
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