WASP-14b
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WASP-14b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP using the transit method. Follow-up radial velocity measurements showed that the mass of WASP-14b is almost eight times larger than that of Jupiter. The radius found by the transit observations show that it has a radius 25% larger than Jupiter. This makes WASP-14b one of the densest exoplanets known. Its radius best fits the model of Jonathan Fortney.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 524 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 218.2765° · Dec 21.8947°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Planet.name
- WASP-14b
- Planet.image
- Exoplanet Comparison WASP-14 b.png
- Planet.caption
- Size comparison of WASP-14b with Jupiter.
- Planet.discoverer
- Cameron et al. (SuperWASP)
- Planet.discovery_site
- SAAO
- Planet.discovered
- April 1, 2008
- Planet.discovery_method
- Transit
- Planet.apsis
- astron
- Planet.semimajor
- 0.037 AU
- Planet.eccentricity
- 0.095
- Planet.period
- 2.243756 d
- Planet.inclination
- 84.79
- Planet.arg_peri
- 254.9
- Planet.star
- WASP-14
- Planet.mean_radius
- 1.259
- Planet.mass
- 7.725
- Planet.surface_grav
- 12.87 g
- Planet.single_temperature
- 2800
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Orbit
- References
- External links
WASP-14b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP using the transit method. Follow-up radial velocity measurements showed that the mass of WASP-14b is almost eight times larger than that of Jupiter. The radius found by the transit observations show that it has a radius 25% larger than Jupiter. This makes WASP-14b one of the densest exoplanets known. Its radius best fits the model of Jonathan Fortney.
==Orbit== First calculation of WASP-14b's Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and so spin-orbit angle was −14 ± 17 degrees. It is too eccentric for its age and so is possibly pulled into its orbit by another planet. The study in 2012 has updated spin-orbit angle to 33.1°.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WASP-14b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.