Astronomy:COROT-8b

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COROT-8b
Discovery
Discovered byCoRoT space telescope
Transit
Orbital characteristics
0.063 AU (9,400,000 km)[1]
Eccentricity0
Orbital period6.21229 d
Inclination88.4
StarCOROT-8 (ru)
Physical characteristics
Mean radius0.5692 |♃|J}}}}}}
Mass0.2158||J}}}}}}
Physics783 K[2]


CoRoT-8b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2010.

It is an hot Neptune-sized planet orbiting a K1V star with Te = 5080K, M = 0.88M, R = 0.77R, above solar metallicity. It has an estimated age below 3.0 Gyr.

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