• describes exoplanet orbital and physical parameters. Most known extrasolar planet candidates have been discovered using indirect methods and therefore...
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    orbited by a protoplanetary disk. There are eight planets within the Solar System; planets outside of the solar system are also known as exoplanets....
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    circumplanetary disks have also been detected around exoplanets, such as J1407b, HD 100546 b, AS 209 b and HD 169142 b or planetary-mass companions (PMC; 10-20...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Habitable zone. Exoplanet orbital and physical parameters Habitability of natural satellites – liquid water on a...
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    binary occurs, and can even lead to increased binary separations. The dynamics of orbital evolution depend on the binary's parameters, such as the mass...
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    In astronomy, a disrupted planet is a planet or exoplanet or, perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale, a planetary-mass object, planetesimal, moon, exomoon...
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    Proxima Centauri b (category Exoplanets detected by radial velocity)
    Centauri Cb, is an exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star to the Sun and part of the...
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    deuterium), it is too massive to be a planet and might be a brown dwarf instead. Known orbital times for exoplanets vary from less than an hour (for those closest...
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    relative position that an observed transiting exoplanet is while transiting a star, the observed physical parameters of the light curve will change. The transit...
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    Kepler-1649c (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
    Kepler-1649c is an Earth-sized exoplanet, likely rocky, orbiting within the habitable zone of the red dwarf star Kepler-1649, the outermost planet of...
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    state of the exoplanets field in terms of their number and our understanding of their orbital and physical characteristics. EXOFAST Transit and Radial Velocity...
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  • The following is a list of exoplanet search projects. EXCEDE FINESSE Origins HabEx LUVOIR New Worlds Mission PEGASE Darwin EChO Eddington Space Interferometry...
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    Gliese 876 d orbits the red dwarf Gliese 876, 15 light years from Earth, and has a mass seven to nine times that of Earth and an orbital period of just...
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    OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb (category Exoplanets discovered in 2005)
    planet's orbital eccentricity, as its orbital elements are not known, other than its orbital period). Until this discovery, no small exoplanet had been...
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    Kepler-442b (category Exoplanets discovered by the Kepler space telescope)
    likely to be habitable than a hypothetical "Earth twin" with physical and orbital parameters matching those of Earth. Going by this index, Earth has a rating...
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    LHS 1140 (category Gliese and GJ objects)
    Telescope. Retrieved 19 April 2017. Overbye, Dennis (19 April 2017). "A new exoplanet may be most promising yet in search for life". The New York Times. Retrieved...
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    GU Piscium b (category Exoplanets detected by direct imaging)
    Discovered Exoplanet Takes 80,000 Years to Orbit its Star". Sci-News.com. May 14, 2014. Brett Smith (May 14, 2014). "Finding An Exoplanet That Takes 80...
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    resonance). The physical principle behind orbital resonance is similar in concept to pushing a child on a swing, whereby the orbit and the swing both have...
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    Planet (redirect from Planetocentric orbit)
    presents some challenges for exoplanets because the language is specific to the Solar System and the criteria of roundness and orbital zone clearance are not...
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    51 Eridani b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2014)
    by the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. 51 Eridani b is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet Imager. The Gemini...
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    planets. Data collected on the orbital eccentricities of extrasolar planets has surprised most researchers: 90% have an orbital eccentricity greater than that...
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    Teegarden's Star b (category Exoplanets discovered in 2019)
    highest Earth Similarity Index (ESI) of any exoplanet,: 106  but in February 2024 a new study updated the parameters of the planet, thus reducing its ESI to...
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    OGLE-2016-BLG-1195Lb (category Exoplanet stubs)
    resemblance (before 2023 parameters update) to the planet with the same name from the Star Wars franchise. A similar exoplanet, OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb, has...
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    list of the largest exoplanets so far discovered, in terms of physical size, ordered by radius. This list of extrasolar objects may and will change over...
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    rocky exoplanet tectonics has been driven by the results of numerical modeling studies. In such models, different planetary physical parameters are manipulated...
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    the mass and orbit of the planet. An alternative hypothesis predicts a planet with different orbital parameters. Renu Malhotra, Kathryn Volk, and Xianyu...
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    HD 209458 b is an exoplanet that orbits the solar analog HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus, some 157 light-years (48 parsecs) from the Solar System...
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    roughly matching the orbital speed around perihelion. Many exoplanets (especially the close-in ones) are expected to be in spin–orbit resonances higher than...
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    90377 Sedna (category Pages using div col with small parameter)
    Database Close approach · Discovery · Ephemeris · Orbit diagram · Orbital elements · Physical parameters Portals:  Physics  Stars  Spaceflight  Outer space...
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    combined and slightly less than one one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun at a distance of 5.20 AU (778.5 Gm) with an orbital period...
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