Astronomy:COROT-22b

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COROT-22b
Discovery
Discovered byCoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.092 AU (13,800,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0.077
Orbital period9.75598 d
Inclination89.749
StarCOROT-22
Physical characteristics
Mean radius0.4354 |♃|J}}}}}}
Mass0.06||J}}}}}}
Physics885 K[2]


CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011.

It is a hot and small (smaller than Uranus) gas giant planet orbiting a G0IV star with Te = 5939K, M = 1.099M, R = 1.136R, and above-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.

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