WASP-11
Star WASP-11 / HAT-P-10 |
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Observation dates equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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Constellation | Aries | ||||
Right ascension | 03 h 09 m 29 s | ||||
declination | + 30 ° 40 ′ 25 ″ | ||||
Apparent brightness | 11.6 mag | ||||
Typing | |||||
Known exoplanets | 1 | ||||
Spectral class | K3 | ||||
Astrometry | |||||
distance | 408 +20−16 Lj 125 +6−5 pc |
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WASP-11 , also known as HAT-P-10 , is a main sequence star belonging to spectral class K3 in the constellation Aries . An exoplanet orbits it.
Exoplanet
WASP-11 b or HAT-P-10 b is an exoplanet with a mass of about half the mass of Jupiter . It orbits the central star with a period of 3.72 days at a distance of about 0.04 astronomical units . The exoplanet was discovered independently of each other by the SuperWASP and HATNet projects, each using the transit method.