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WASP-12b is a hot Jupiter [6] (a class of extrasolar planets) orbiting the star WASP-12, discovered in April of 2008, by the SuperWASP planetary transit survey. [ 7 ] [ 1 ] The planet takes only a little over one Earth day to orbit its star, in contrast to about 365.25 days for the Earth to orbit the Sun .
The planet orbits WASP-8A at an average distance of just 0.08 AU (12,000,000 km) and a year passes in slightly more than 8.1 days on WASP-8b, which is somewhat farther from its parent star than other hot Jupiter planets. However, WASP-8b's orbit also has a relatively high eccentricity of 0.3, which, at periastron, brings it as close to its star ...
WASP-24 is an F-type star with the Hot Jupiter planet WASP-24b in orbit. WASP-24 is slightly larger and more massive than the Sun, it is also has a similar Metallicity and is hotter than the Sun. WASP-24 was first observed by the SuperWASP planet-searching organization, which flagged it as a potential host to a planet before following up with radial velocity and spectral measurements.
WASP-28b or K2-1b is an extrasolar planet discovered in 2010 [4] by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) project orbiting WASP-28, a magnitude 12 star also known as 1SWASP J233427.87-013448.1, 2MASS J23342787-0134482 and K2-1. [5] [1] Since it orbits its star very closely, the planet is a strongly irradiated hot Jupiter. [1]
WASP-13b, also known as Cruinlagh, [5] is an extrasolar planet that was discovered in 2008 in the orbit of the sunlike star WASP-13. [1] The planet has a mass of nearly half that of Jupiter, but a radius five-quarters of the size of Jupiter. This low relative mass might be caused by a core that is of low mass or that is not present at all. [1]
Though the planetary equilibrium temperature is 2,484 ± 67 K, the planet is tidally locked to WASP-103 and has one side in permanent day and the other side in permanent night. A significant temperature difference exists between the night side and day side; the dayside temperature is 2,930 ± 40 K, while the night side temperature is 1,880 ± ...
WASP-43 is a K-type star about 284 light-years (87 parsecs) away in the Sextans constellation. It is about half the size of the Sun, and has approximately half the mass. WASP-43 has one known planet in orbit, a Hot Jupiter called WASP-43b. At the time of publishing of WASP-43b's discovery on April 15, 2011, the planet was the most closely ...
WASP-33b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the star HD 15082. It was the first planet discovered to orbit a Delta Scuti variable star. With a semimajor axis of 0.026 AU (3.9 million km ; 2.4 million mi ) and a mass likely greater than Jupiter 's, [ 1 ] it belongs to the hot Jupiter class of planets.