Discovery date April 1, 2008 Discovery status Published | Discovery site SAAO | |
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Discoverer(s) Cameron et al. (SuperWASP) | ||
WASP-6b is an extrasolar planet approximately 1000 light years away in the constellation Aquarius. It was discovered in 2008, by the WASP survey, by astronomical transit across its parent star WASP-6. This planet orbits only 4% that of Earth-Sun distance. The planet has mass half that of Jupiter, but its insolation has forced a thermal expansion of its radius over that of Jupiter.
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