WASP-16b
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WASP-16b is an extrasolar planet that travels around its star, WASP-16, every 3.12 days. Likely a hot Jupiter. Its mass is near .855 of Jupiter, the radius is 1.008 of Jupiter. It was discovered in 2009 by a team led by T.A. Lister as part of the Wide Angle Search for Planets project. ==Characteriscics== In 2012, it was found from the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect that WASP-16b orbits its slow-rotating and likely old parent star WASP-16 in a prograde direction, with the star's rotational axis inclined to the planetary orbit by .
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Pl
- Distance
- 628 light-years
- Coordinates
- RA 214.6830° · Dec -20.2755°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Parent body
- WASP-16
- Radius
- 1.008
- Mass
- 0.855
- Orbital period
- 3.1186009
- Image
- Exoplanet Comparison WASP-16 b.png
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- Commons category
- WASP-16 b
- right ascension
- 214.68301104725415
- catalog code
- TIC 46096489b
- time of discovery or invention
- 2009-09-00
- epoch
- J2000.0
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.015
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 0.0421
- orbital inclination
- 85.22
- discovery method
- transit method
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.040
- declination component of proper motion
- 17.257
- declination
- -20.27551172883860
- parallax
- 5.1230
- argument of periapsis
- 97
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WASP-16b is an extrasolar planet that travels around its star, WASP-16, every 3.12 days. Likely a hot Jupiter. Its mass is near .855 of Jupiter, the radius is 1.008 of Jupiter. It was discovered in 2009 by a team led by T.A. Lister as part of the Wide Angle Search for Planets project. ==Characteriscics== In 2012, it was found from the Rossiter–McLaughlin effect that WASP-16b orbits its slow-rotating and likely old parent star WASP-16 in a prograde direction, with the star's rotational axis inclined to the planetary orbit by .
==References==
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