WASP-96b
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Hellier et al. (WASP) |
| Discovery date | October 2013 |
| Transit | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| 0.0454±0.0013 AU | |
| Eccentricity | <0.11 |
| 3.4252602(27) d | |
| Inclination | 85.60°±0.20° |
| Semi-amplitude | 64.0+5.3 −4.8 m/s |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 1.200±0.060 RJ | |
| Mass | 0.490+0.049 −0.047 MJ |
Mean density | 0.352+0.068 −0.059 g/cm3 |
| Temperature | 1285 K |
WASP-96b is a gas giant exoplanet. Its mass is 0.48 times that of Jupiter. It is 0.0453 AU from the class G star WASP-96, which it orbits every 3.4 days. It is about 1,140 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Phoenix. It was discovered in 2013 by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP).
WASP-96b orbits its Sun-like star WASP-96 every 3.4 Earth days at a distance just one-ninth of the distance between Mercury and the Sun.
The hot-Jupiter exoplanet was found via the transiting method by Coel Hellier et.al. in 2013 as part of the WASP-South survey.