CoRoT-22b
Uranus-like exoplanet
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CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet smaller than Uranus found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014.[3]
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.092 AU (13,800,000 km)[1] | |
| Eccentricity | 0.077 |
| 9.75598 d | |
| Inclination | 89.749 |
| Star | CoRoT-22 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 0.4354 RJ | |
| Mass | 0.06MJ |
| Temperature | 885 K[2] |
Host star
CoRoT-22b orbits CoRoT-22 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a G3V star with an effective temperature of 5,939 K (5,666 °C; 10,231 °F), a mass of 1.099 M☉, a radius of 1.136 R☉, and an above-solar metallicity of +0.170.[a] It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.[3]
