CoRoT-22b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope in 2011 and confirmed in 2014.[3]
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | CoRoT space telescope |
Detection method | Transit |
| Orbital characteristics | |
Semi-major axis | 0.092 AU (13,800,000 km)[1] |
| Eccentricity | 0.077 |
Orbital period (sidereal) | 9.75598 d |
| Inclination | 89.749 |
| Star | COROT-22 |
| Physical characteristics | |
Mean radius | 0.4354 RJ |
| Mass | 0.06MJ |
| Temperature | 885 K[2] |
It is a hot and small (smaller than Uranus) gas giant planet orbiting a G0IV star with Te = 5939K, M = 1.099M☉, R = 1.136R☉, and above-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age of between 1.3 and 5.3 Gyr.