WASP-11

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Star
WASP-11 / HAT-P-10
AladinLite
Observation
dates equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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
Physical Properties
Other names
and catalog entries
Tycho catalog TYC 2340-1714-1 [1]Template: Infobox star / maintenance / specification of the TYC catalog
Other names 2MASS J03092855 + 3040249 • GSC  02340-01714

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.