HAT-p-40

HAT-p-40 b is a gas giant exoplanet which orbits an F-type star.^[1] The F-type star is right after an G-type star.

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The mass of HAT-p-40 b is 0.48 Jupiters.^[1] It takes 4.5 days to complete one orbit around it's F-type star.^[1] HAT-p-40 b was discovered in 2012.^[2] HAT-p-40 b is about 1411.9 lightyears away from our Solar System.^[3]

F-type star[change | change source]

An F-type star is one of the many type of stars, ranging lowest at an M-type star than an K-type star and after that an G-type start which is our sun type. The type of star determines it's characteristics. There is also an F-type main-sequence star which is a is a main-sequence, hydrogen-fusing star of spectral type F and luminosity class V2.

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↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Exoplanet-catalog".
↑ "The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia — HAT-P-40 B". 1995.
↑ "HAT-P-40 B".

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[exoplanets.nasa.gov-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Exoplanet-catalog".

[2] "The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia — HAT-P-40 B". 1995.

[3] "HAT-P-40 B".

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