Discovery date April 1, 2008 Discovery status Published | Discovery site SAAO | |
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Discoverer(s) Cameron et al. (SuperWASP) | ||
WASP-14b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2008 by SuperWASP using the transit method. Follow-up radial velocity measurements showed that the mass of WASP-14b is almost eight times larger than that of Jupiter. The radius found by the transit observations show that it has a radius 25% larger than Jupiter. This makes WASP-14b one of the densest exoplanets known. Its radius best fits the model of Jonathan Fortney.
Rotation
As of August 2008, the most recent calculation of WASP-14b's Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and so spin-orbit angle was −14 ± 17 degrees. It is too eccentric for its age and so is possibly pulled into its orbit by another planet.
References
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