Discovery date April 1, 2008 | Discovery status Confirmed | |
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Discoverer(s) Cameron et al. (SuperWASP) | ||
WASP-8b is an extrasolar planet discovered (with their stars) in the SuperWASP batch -6b to -15b. On 1 April 2008, Dr. Don Pollacco of Queen’s University Belfast announced them at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2008).
At 49 parsecs away, this system is the closest of the WASP-discovered systems: closer to Earth than are HD 17156 and HD 149026. It is denser than Jupiter.
The planet orbits retrograde.
The equilibrium temperature is 950 K, but this oscillates due to eccentricity.
References
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