CoRoT-21b


CoRoT-21b is a transiting exoplanet found by the CoRoT space telescope on 2011.
It is an extremely hot Jupiter-like planet with an orbital period of 2.72 earth days. Its mass is equivalent to 2.26 Jupiter masses, 1.3 Jupiter radii, and has a density of 1.37 g/cm3. CoRoT-21b orbits a F8IV star with Te = 6200K, M = 1.29M, R = 1.945Solar radius|R, and near-solar metallicity. It has an estimated age between 3.6 and 4.6 Gyr.