Exoplanet KELT-18 A b

Name: KELT-18 A b
Creator: Stellar Catalog
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Exoplanet KELT-18 A b orbits star KELT-18 A that lies 1032 light years away from the Sun. It weighs about 375.1 Earth masses and orbits its star much closer than Earth orbits Sun.

Sun distance
1032 light years

KELT-18 A b

Exoplanet, gas giant

Star: KELT-18 A

Distance from the star: 0.0455 AU

Orbit around star: 2.871698 days

Basic characteristic

Mass: 375.1 M Earth | 1.1804 M Jupiter

Size: 17.598 R Earth | 1.6 R Jupiter

Density: 380 kg/m3 | 7 % Earth

Temperature: 2120 K | 1847 °C

Year of discovery: 2017 (transit)

Comparison to the Solar system planets

Mass: Jupiter (118.04 % Jupiter mass)

Size: Jupiter (157 % Jupiter radius)

Density: Saturn (55 % Saturn density)

Distance: Mercury (12 % Mercury distance)

Other designations of this exoplanet
b

Exoplanets around star KELT-18 A

Exoplanet KELT-18 A b orbits star Class yellow-white star KELT-18 A, which has bigger mass than Sun. It is the only known exoplanet orbiting this star

KELT-18 A b

| 0.05 AU

Star KELT-18

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