Kepler-17b
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kepler-17b-273-18465163
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Kepler-17b
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Kepler-17b is a planet in the orbit of star Kepler-17, first observed by the Kepler spacecraft observatory in 2011. Kepler-17b is a gas giant nearly 2.45 times the mass of Jupiter, and is sometimes described as a "super-Jupiter".
The planet is likely to be tidally locked to the parent star. In 2015, the planetary nightside temperature was estimated to be equal to 2229+50−58 K. The study in 2012, utilizing a Rossiter–McLaughlin effect, have determined the planetary orbit is probably aligned with
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Super Jupiter orbiting Kepler-17
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-17b
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2023-09-27T00:08:34Z
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