WASP-3
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Star WASP-3 |
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| AladinLite | |||||
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Observation dates equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Constellation | lyre | ||||
| Right ascension | 18 h 34 m 31.62 s | ||||
| declination | + 35 ° 39 ′ 41.5 ″ | ||||
| Apparent brightness | 10.6 mag | ||||
| Typing | |||||
| Known exoplanets | 1 | ||||
| Spectral class | F7 V | ||||
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| Proper movement | |||||
| Rec. Share: | approx. −5 mas / a | ||||
| Dec. portion: | approx. −23 mas / a | ||||
| Physical Properties | |||||
| Dimensions | 1.2 M ☉ | ||||
| radius | 1.3 R ☉ | ||||
| Effective temperature | approx. 6400 K | ||||
| Metallicity [Fe / H] | approx. 0 | ||||
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WASP-3 is a yellow dwarf in the constellation Lyra . It has an apparent magnitude of 10.6 mag. In 2007 A. Collier Cameron discovered an extrasolar planet orbiting this star: WASP-3 b . In July 2010 the University of Jena announced that it had detected another planet using the transit time variation method. WASP-3c is said to have 15 Earth masses and take 3.75 days to complete one orbit.