COROT


COnvection ROtation and planetary TransitsCOROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity is actually a planet or a failed star. The object, named COROT-exo-3b, is about the size of Jupiter, but packs more than 20 times the mass. It takes only 4 days and 6 hours to orbit its parent star, which is slightly larger than the Sun.COROT is a mission led by the French National Space Agency, CNES. It is a 27-cm aperture space telescope designed to detect tiny changes in brightness from nearby stars. The spacecraft was launched on 27 December 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russia.







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Uploaded: October 6, 2008 at 6:27 pm
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