Astrolábos
WASP-43 b
IAU name «Astrolábos» — Romania, 2022 contest
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Planet
- Host star
- WASP-43
- Distance from Earth
- 86.7467 pc (≈ 282.9 light-years)
- NASA planet type
- Gas Giant
- Radius (Earth = 1)
- 10.424
- Mass (Earth = 1)
- 565.714
- Orbital period
- 0.813475 days
- Semi-major axis
- 0.0142 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0
- Equilibrium temperature
- 1,426.7 K
- Discovery method
- Transit
- Discovery year
- 2,011
- Discovery facility
- SuperWASP
- Host spectral type
- K7 V
- Host temperature
- 4,400 K
- Host radius (Sun = 1)
- 0.6
- Host mass (Sun = 1)
- 0.58
- Host brightness
- 12.305 mag
Source:NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Science · checked 2026-11-02 ↗NASA Exoplanet Archive (Caltech/IPAC) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
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Host star
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 283 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1743 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- Its radius is about 10 times Earth's (NASA Exoplanet Archive).
- One orbit takes about 19.5 hours — more than 1.2 orbits a day.
Worked out from this object's official values.