WASP-5 b
Sign in to saveWASP-5 is a magnitude 12 G-type main-sequence star located about away in the Phoenix constellation. The star is likely older than the Sun, slightly enriched in heavy elements and is rotating rapidly, being spun up by the tides raised by the giant planet on a close orbit.
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It sits within the topics G-type main-sequence stars, Phoenix (constellation) and Planetary systems with one confirmed planet.
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Phoenix
- Child body
- WASP-5b
- Distance from Earth
- 297
- Diameter
- 1310000
- Radius
- 1.084
- Mass
- 1
- Variable-star type
- eclipsing binary star
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- surface gravity
- 22860
- catalog code
- UCAC4 244-187310
- Commons category
- WASP-5 b
- effective temperature
- 5748
- parallax
- 3.233
- radial velocity
- 18.49
- apparent magnitude
- 12.058
- epoch
- J2000.0
- spectral class
- G5
- metallicity
- 0.196
- luminosity
- 1.1563627
- right ascension component of proper motion
- 7.406
- declination component of proper motion
- -16.072
- right ascension
- 359.34898528008
- declination
- -41.27715102799999
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3
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WASP-5 is a magnitude 12 G-type main-sequence star located about away in the Phoenix constellation. The star is likely older than the Sun, slightly enriched in heavy elements and is rotating rapidly, being spun up by the tides raised by the giant planet on a close orbit.
==Planetary system== This star has one exoplanet, WASP-5b, detected by the SuperWASP project in 2007.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WASP-5 b” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.