Astronomy:COROT-17b

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COROT-17b
Discovery
Discovered byCoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.0461 AU (6,900,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0
Orbital period3.768125 d
Inclination88.34
StarCOROT-17 (ru)
Physical characteristics
Mean radius1.02 |♃|J}}}}}}
Mass2.43||J}}}}}}
Physics1486 K[2]


CoRoT-17b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope on 2011.[3]

It is an hot Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a G2V star with Te = 5740K, M = 1.04M, R = 1.59R, and near-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 9.7 and 11.7 Gyr.

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