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CoRoT-22b

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CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet smaller than Uranus found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014.[3]

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Host star

CoRoT-22b orbits CoRoT-22 in the constellation of Serpens. It is a G3V star with an effective temperature of 5,939 K (5,666 °C; 10,231 °F), a mass of 1.099 M, a radius of 1.136 R, and an above-solar metallicity of +0.170.[a] It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.[3]

Footnotes

  1. This means that CoRoT-22 is 100.170≈1.479 times richer in iron than the Sun.

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