Astronomy:COROT-10b

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COROT-10b
Discovery
Discovered byCoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.1055 AU (15,780,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0.53
Orbital period13.2406 d
Inclination88.55
StarCOROT-10 (ru)
Physical characteristics
Mean radius0.97 |♃|J}}}}}}
Mass2.75||J}}}}}}
Physics601 K[2]


CoRoT-10b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010.

It is an Jupiter-sized planet orbiting K1V star with Te = 5075K, M = 0.89M, R = 0.79R, above solar metallicity. It has an estimated age below 3.0 Gyr.

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